Parent report of child's sleep problem severity (no, mild, moderate, severe); specific sleep domain scores assessed using the Child Sleep Habits Questionnaire; internalising and externalising comorbidities assessed by the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Children IV/Parent version.
Motivation to change alcohol use correlated positively with greater self-reported alcohol consumption and problem severity.
Other recommendations include establishing a "participant profile" which includes substance use disorder problem severity and need for supplemental services.
Education, family environment and earlier alcohol use behaviors and expectancies were reliable predictors of alcohol problem severity in young adulthood.
Multivariate regressions showed greater alcohol problem severity in males compared to females, but no significant differences between Blacks and Whites.
Results indicate differences in problem severity ratings, program emphasis (i.e., goal-setting, coping, education), and program leadership between clinicians and each patient subgroup to varying degrees.
Barriers to seeking psychological help are explored and significant correlations between perceptions of psychological benefit, problem severity and barriers to help seeking are described.
Based on experience gained in a study of treatment matching with persons who had a wide range of alcohol problem severity, AUDIT scores were compared with diagnostic data reflecting low, medium and high degrees of alcohol dependence.
The child characteristics included age, gender and problem severity.
Substance use and problem severity were also measured.
There was no significant effect of condition or of problem severity and no significant interaction between condition and problem severity (P > 0.05).
