Roosa M W, Michaels M, Groppenbacher N, Gersten J
Department of Family Resources and Human Development, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-2502.
J Stud Alcohol. 1993 Jan;54(1):71-9. doi: 10.15288/jsa.1993.54.71.
Data from interviews with parents and 9-12 year old children from 303 families were used to test the validity of children's reports of parental alcoholism or problem drinking status. Children's responses to several single-item screening questions that had been used previously to identify children of alcoholics, as well as their responses to the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test for each parent, were compared to parents' alcoholism diagnosis and screening test scores. In general, children's responses correctly identified only a small portion of alcoholic parents and, when all screening items were combined into a single screening tool to increase sensitivity, the false positive rate became unreasonable for most applications. The screening items were better at identifying active alcoholics than abstaining alcoholics but were also better at identifying problem drinking parents than alcoholic parents. None of the screening options tested had optimal characteristics for use in research or intervention applications.
来自对303个家庭的父母及9至12岁儿童的访谈数据，被用于检验儿童关于父母酗酒或饮酒问题状况报告的有效性。将儿童对先前用于识别酗酒者子女的几个单项筛查问题的回答，以及他们对每位父母的密歇根酒精中毒简易筛查测试的回答，与父母的酗酒诊断和筛查测试分数进行了比较。总体而言，儿童的回答仅正确识别出了一小部分酗酒父母，并且当所有筛查项目合并为一个单一筛查工具以提高敏感性时，对于大多数应用来说，假阳性率变得不合理。筛查项目在识别现酗酒者方面比戒酒者更好，但在识别有饮酒问题的父母方面也比酗酒父母更好。所测试的筛查选项中，没有一个具有适用于研究或干预应用的最佳特征。
