title: Perceived-Benefit-of-Drinking Scale: approach to screening for adolescent alcohol abuse.
abstract: An index that measures adolescents' perceived benefits of drinking, the self-administered Perceived-Benefit-of-Drinking Scale, has been tested on a high school population. Results indicate that the instrument is practical and that it generates a scalable, reliable, and valid measure of reasons for drinking. The scale's strong relationship with other drinking behavior indicators makes it a potentially useful clinical screening device because it can serve as a proxy measure to assess the drinking behaviors of adolescents.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009820:Ohio; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000379:methods*; D012938:Social Perception; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population