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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2013 Dec;10(4):10.1007/s11904-013-0174-8. doi: 10.1007/s11904-013-0174-8

Table 2.

Type and description of alcohol use measures included in the reviewed studies

Alcohol Measures
Study Citations Alcohol Frequency Alcohol Quantity Binge Drinking Abuse or Dependence Other
(42)

  • Past week

  • Past month

  • Past week

  • Past month
(43)

  • Past week

  • Alcohol and marijuana risk groups: Low-risk, Moderate-risk, High-risk (based on frequency of use)
(44)

  • Past 2 weeks

  • Past 2 weeks

  • Past 2 weeks: # total drinks/# drinking days
(45)

  • Past month

  • Past month

  • Past month: (5 or more drinks per occasion)

  • Past month: Drinking and unprotected sex
(46)

  • Past week: > 14 drinks for men

  • Past week: > 7 drinks for women

  • Past 3 months: Number of binge drinking occasions (5 or more drinks for men; 4 or more drinks for women)
(47, 48)

  • Past week: Most number of drinks
(49)

  • Past month

  • Past month (maximum number per day)

  • Past month: Average # drinks: Quantity/frequency

  • Past month: Hazardous drinking (3 or more drinks per occasion for women; 4 or more drinks per occasion for men)

  • Addiction Severity Index
(50)

  • Past month

  • Typical number of drinks per occasion

  • Past month: Frequency of drinking past month x Typical number of drinks

  • Past month: >28 drinks for women (3 or more drinks per occasion)

  • Past month: >56 drinks for men (4 or more drinks per occasion for men)

  • Level of drinking: None, moderate (less than binge level), hazardous (binge level)
(51)

  • Past month

  • Past month
(52)

  • Risk index: Alcohol use, drug use, sexual risk
(53)

  • Past three months: Alcohol or marijuana

  • Past three months: weight by substance (0: none, 1: alcohol, 2: marijuana, 3, 4: other substances)
(54)

  • Past 3 months (dichotomous measure; dichotomous alcohol or marijuana)

  • Number of drugs used (including alcohol)
(55)

  • 2 or more symptoms of dependency

  • Number of drugs used (including alcohol)
(56) †

  • Past 3 months (alcohol or marijuana)
(57)

  • Addiction Severity Index

Notes: When multiple papers were written on a single intervention trial, study citation numbers for these papers are listed in succession.

†

This study conducted a subset analysis from (53).