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Reliability of prisoners' attitudes to their drinking behaviour1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Paul Bowden
Paul Bowden
Affiliation:
Maudsley Hospital, London
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Synopsis

A sample of male prisoners was examined by means of a questionnaire and subsequently by a structured interview. Control subjects who denied heavy drinking were used to study test-retest reliability of a group who admitted that drinking was a problem and a third group who admitted heavy drinking but denied problem drinking. Non-heavy drinkers and the heaviest drinkers are shown to be the most reliable and the intermediate group least reliable.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , August 1975 , pp. 307 - 313
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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