title: Problematic alcohol use and mild intellectual disability: standardization of pictorial stimuli for an alcohol cue reactivity task.
abstract: The present study focused on the first step in developing a cue reactivity task for studying cognitive biases in individuals with mild to borderline intellectual disability (ID) and alcohol use-related problems: the standardization of pictorial stimuli. Participants (N=40), both with and without a history of alcohol use-related problems and varying in IQ, were admitted to a forensic setting and were all abstinent. They were asked to rate familiarity, complexity, valence and attractiveness of pictures portraying both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. There was a tendency to rate non-alcoholic beverages as more pleasant and attractive than alcoholic beverages. In participants with mild to borderline ID, this difference reached statistical significance, even when controlling for alcohol use-related problems in the past. The overall result of the study is a large database of 255 pictures portraying both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages that will be used to validate an implicit measure of cognitive biases for alcohol in individuals with mild to borderline ID.
authors.affiliation: Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. n.vanduijvenbode@pwo.ru.nl
authors.forename: Neomi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: van Duijvenbode
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Didden
authors.forename: Gijs
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bloemsaat
authors.forename: Rutger C M E
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Engels
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000434:Alcoholic Beverages; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000523:psychology; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003071:Cognition; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D055815:Young Adult