Department of Psychology , University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.
Department of Psychology , Health and Addictions Research Center, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.
Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2019 Feb;43(2):353-366. doi: 10.1111/acer.13939. Epub 2019 Jan 15.
The Approach and Avoidance of Alcohol Questionnaire (AAAQ) was developed as a measure of craving to assess both desires to consume and desires to avoid consuming alcohol. Although the measure has been used in a variety of populations to predict future alcohol use behavior, the factor structures observed vary based on sample type (e.g., clinical vs. college samples) and may be overly long for use in repeated measures designs. The current article describes the development of a brief version of the AAAQ for use in clinical populations.
Using existing data sets of individuals in treatment for alcohol use disorder, exploratory analyses (e.g., exploratory factor analysis and item response theory) were conducted using an inpatient sample (N = 298) at a substance abuse treatment facility. Confirmatory analyses (e.g., confirmatory factor analysis and multiple regression) were conducted using an inpatient detoxification sample (N = 175) and a longitudinal outpatient treatment sample (N = 53).
The brief AAAQ had comparable internal consistency, explained a similar amount of variance in alcohol consumption and related problems, and exhibited superior model fit as compared to the original measure.
These findings indicate that the brief AAAQ is an effective tool to assess alcohol craving in clinical populations in treatment settings.
酒精趋近回避问卷（AAAQ）是作为一种评估饮酒欲望的测量工具而开发的，用于评估对饮酒的渴望和回避。尽管该测量工具已在各种人群中用于预测未来的饮酒行为，但观察到的因子结构因样本类型（例如，临床样本与大学样本）而异，并且在重复测量设计中可能过长。本文描述了一种用于临床人群的 AAAQ 简短版本的开发。
使用酒精使用障碍治疗个体的现有数据集，在一家药物滥用治疗机构对住院样本（N=298）进行了探索性分析（例如，探索性因子分析和项目反应理论）。在住院戒毒样本（N=175）和纵向门诊治疗样本（N=53）中进行了验证性分析（例如，验证性因子分析和多元回归）。
简短的 AAAQ 具有相当的内部一致性，解释了酒精消费和相关问题的相似量的方差，并且表现出优于原始测量的模型拟合度。
这些发现表明，简短的 AAAQ 是评估治疗环境中临床人群中饮酒欲望的有效工具。
