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Darren Mays1, Stuart Usdan, Kimberly Jacob Arriola
1Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. dmmays@sph.emory.edu
Background:
Few validated measures exist to capture the context and consequences of specific drinking events among college students.
Objectives:
This study sought to describe the development and validation of the Retrospective Alcohol Context Scale (RACS), a 30-day measure of drinking context among college students.
Methods:
A sample of 169 college students completed daily alcohol assessments for 30 days and completed the RACS at follow-up.
Results:
The RACS captured fewer negative consequences than daily assessments; however, high agreement was observed on context variables.
Conclusion:
Results support the validity of the RACS as a measure of drinking context among college students. The RACS may be most useful when information about drinking needs to be collected under limited time and resources.
Scientific Significance:
Further research is needed to examine the RACS among more diverse, probability samples and over longer time periods.
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