Dear all,
I am researching about adolescents and alcohol use with self-report method and I have a few questions about how to measure frequency of alcohol (and other substances) consumption.
How much does the temporal range of consumption - operationalized by measure- influence the study (e.g. "How often did you drink in the last month?")?
In your opinion what are the benefits and the disadvantages of using a measure of alcohol consumption referred to the last month?
Could you kindly suggest me literature about why is it important using measures refered to monthly consumption of alcohol of other substances?
Briefly, I am curious about:
Why not investigate last week?
Why not last year?
Why survey mostly use monthly frequency?
Thank you very much
Dear Perasso,
Regarding the object of the research is the way of the survey. In order to have data that could be compared in between countries WHO have a guide that is: once in your life, last year, last month. When the drug is more common to be used is goes weekly or daily and the amount.
https://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_alcohol_report/profiles/ita.pdf?ua=1
10.23749/mdl.v108i1.5581
https://www.eurocare.org/media/GENERAL/docs/reports/2016europeanreportonalcoholpolicy.pdf
The use of these standard makes your research more useful for data analysis and increase the possibility to be cited in future research's.
Best regards,
Eleutrio
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