作者: Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Resea Center , Tobacco Dependence Phenotype Workgroup , Timothy Baker , Megan Piper , Danielle McCarthy
DOI: 10.1080/14622200701673480
关键词: Predictive validity 、 Clinical psychology 、 Index (economics) 、 Psychiatry 、 Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence 、 Abstinence 、 Morning 、 Smoking cessation 、 Nicotine dependence 、 Quit smoking 、 Medicine
摘要: An inability to maintain abstinence is a key indicator of tobacco dependence. Unfortunately, little evidence exists regarding the ability major dependence measures predict smoking cessation outcome. This paper used data from four placebo-controlled trials and one international epidemiologic study determine relations between Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND; Heatherton et al., 1991), Heaviness Smoking Index (HSI; Kozlowski 1994), Syndrome Scale (NDSS; Shiffman 2004) Wisconsin Inventory Motives (WISDM; Piper al. with success. Results showed that much predictive validity FTND could be attributed its first item, time cigarette in morning, this item had greater than any other single measure. Thus, appears tap pattern heavy, uninterrupted, automatic may good single-item measure nicotine