title: Rural and urban problem drinkers in six Southern states.
abstract: In 1994-1997 we conducted a four-wave longitudinal study of rural and urban problem drinkers in six Southern United States states to examine rural/urban differences in predictors of service use and course of drinking. This report describes early rural/urban differences from a brief interview with over 3,000 community individuals and among 525 identified problem drinkers. Overall, we found rural/urban differences in alcohol consumption at the community level but only demographic differences among problem drinkers. Our newly developed screening interview for alcohol disorders had excellent agreement (kappa = 0.72) for lifetime disorders and good agreement (kappa = 0.53) for recent disorders against structured diagnostic interviews for DSM-IV criteria.
authors: Centers for Mental Healthcare Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock 72205, USA. boothbrendam@exchange.uams.edu
authors: B M
authors: BM
authors: Booth
authors: R L
authors: RL
authors: Ross
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Rost
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology; D019973:Alcohol-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012423:Rural Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D015144:Southeastern United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D013695:Temperance / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013714:Tennessee / Q000453:epidemiology; D014504:Urban Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*