‘Self-monitoring’and‘recall’measures of alcohol consumption: convergent validity with biochemical indices of liver function

摘要

Gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase and high-density lipoproteins cholesterol were used to corroborate drinking reported by 40 clients of an outpatient alcoholism clinic. Drinking data were obtained by two methods:‘recall’(retrospective reports) and‘self-monitoring’(daily records). The biochemical indices were found to correlate significantly only with self-monitoring data. This finding suggests that greater attention should be paid in biochemical research to the method of eliciting alcohol consumpti