Dr Lam and Dr Fine want to determine how much alcohol theirpatients consume. As you are a health psychologist and researcher,they seek your advice about devising a patient survey for thispurpose.
In your advice, you mention several sources of possibleinaccuracy in self-report measures of alcohol consumption. You alsoadvise on strategies to help minimise this inaccuracy and discusspossible use of a ‘gold standard’ against which the self-reportmeasure might be compared.
- What are the reasons for possible inaccuracy you identify, andthe strategies you advise may help address these?
- How do you describe what a ‘gold standard’ is, and what goldstandard measures can you discuss for the self- report of alcoholconsumption?
