Subjective intoxication predicts alcohol-related consequences at equivalent alcohol concentrations in young adults using ecological momentary assessment and alcohol sensors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Subjective intoxication (SI) when drinking may serve as an internal barometer of whether to continue drinking or engage in potentially unsafe behavior. Mobile assessments offer the potential to use SI as a prospective risk indicator during drinking episodes; little evidence exists for the validity of real-time SI measures. We test the correspondence of SI with estimated blood alcohol concentration and transdermal alcohol concentration (TAC) in young adults' natural settings. We provide a novel test of whether SI features (peak and mean SI) uniquely predict consequences adjusting for alcohol concentration.

Method

Two hundred twenty-two heavy-drinking young adults (M_age = 22.3, 64% female, 79% non-Hispanic White, 84% undergraduates) participated in

SUBMITTER: Richards VL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11065600 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature