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Self-reports of drug use behaviors could be influenced by memory errors and under-reporting; however, a 14-year longitudinal study reported good consistency over time in the reporting of lifetime LSD use.
The reporting of lifetime pesticide use in the AHS has been evaluated and shown to be reliable (Blair et al. 2002); however, the reliability of reporting an HPEE or a pesticide poisoning is unknown.
Limiting the recall period to a few years has been suggested as a way to minimise memory lapses, however, a study in Estonia showed no difference between reporting of lifetime abortion and recent abortions [ 11].
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Ten items from the Junior Self-Monitoring Scale were administered as well as self-reports of lifetime and current cigarette smoking, and measures of active peer pressure (direct offers) and passive peer pressure (normative beliefs).
A limitation of the self-reporting of "lifetime sexual problems" is that it may capture those with a history of SD due to social, economic, or lifestyle factors instead of progressive endothelial pathology, which may precede larger-vessel disease.
Previous research indicates that there may be substantial inconsistency in self-reports of lifetime abstention.
Reports of lifetime events reduce in older age, suggesting that reported lifetime traumatic events do not represent lifetime exposure.
Shih and colleagues [ 13] recently examined the potential of these constructs to mediate racial/ethnic differences in reports of lifetime alcohol and other drug (AOD) use.
To use retrospective reports of lifetime depression in a test of this GxE hypothesis is tantamount to using lifetime weight to test hypotheses about the cause of low birth-weight, or to use lifetime IQ to test hypotheses about causes of IQ decline in Alzheimer's dementia; the measure sounds the same, but it is not.
Results showed that reports of lifetime service use were as reliable as were reports of service use in the last three months and that children reported restrictive and intrusive services more reliably than services that were provided in their natural environment [ 41, 42].
Parental knowledge of their child's alcohol consumption was added as a covariate for binary logistic regression analyses to predict child's main method of obtaining alcohol, child's past month drunkenness, parental reports of recent alcohol discussions, and parental reports of lifetime use of other parenting techniques.
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