Open AccessThe utility of collateral informant assessment in college alcohol research: results from a longitudinal prevention trial.
Author(s) -
Robert G. Laforge,
Brian Borsari,
John Baer
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of studies on alcohol
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1934-2683
pISSN - 0096-882X
DOI - 10.15288/jsa.2005.66.479
Subject(s) - collateral , psychology , collateral damage , intervention (counseling) , pipeline (software) , clinical psychology , medicine , medical education , computer science , finance , psychiatry , criminology , economics , programming language
Collateral informants have been used to assess independently the validity of college student self-report data. However, it is unclear under what conditions collateral reports might be valid and useful in college research. We present two studies that examine aspects of these issues using data from 1,264 college student participants in a brief intervention prevention trial conducted at a public university.