Expanding the Utility of the Biphasic Alcohol Effects Scale (BAES) and Initial Psychometric Support for the Brief‐BAES (B‐BAES)

Rueger, Sandra Yu; King, Andrea C.

doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.00914.x

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“…The BAES is a 14-item adjective rating scale of alcohol's stimulant and sedative effects, with scale items ranging from 0 ('not at all') to 10 ('extremely'). Other studies report internal consistency scores of 0.94 and 0.95 for the stimulation subscale, and of 0.91 and 0.93 for the sedation subscale, during the ascending and descending limbs of intoxication, respectively (Rueger et al, 2009). …”

Section: Measures Of Subjective Effectsmentioning

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Reduced Subjective Response to Acute Ethanol Administration Among Young Men with a Broad Bipolar Phenotype

Yip

Doherty

Wakeley

et al. 2012

Neuropsychopharmacol

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Elevated lifetime prevalence rates of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are a feature of bipolar disorder (BD). Individuals at-risk for AUDs exhibit blunted subjective responses to alcohol (low levels of response), which may represent a biomarker for AUDs. Thus, individuals atrisk for BD may exhibit low responses to alcohol. Participants were 20 unmedicated adult males who reported high rates of hypomanic experiences (bipolar phenotype participants; BPPs), aged 18 to 21 years, and 20 healthy controls matched on age, gender, IQ, BMI, and weekly alcohol intake. Subjective and pharmacokinetic responses to acute alcohol (0.8 g/kg) vs placebo administration were collected in a randomized, double-blind, cross-over, placebo-controlled, within-subjects design. BPP participants reported significantly lower subjective intoxication effects ('feel high': F ¼ 14.2, p ¼ 0.001; 'feel effects': F ¼ 8.1, p ¼ 0.008) across time, but did not differ in their pharmacokinetic, stimulant, or sedative responses. Paradoxically, however, the BPP participants reported significantly higher expectations of the positive effects of alcohol than controls. Our results suggest that unmedicated young males with previous hypomanic experiences exhibit diminished subjective responses to alcohol. These blunted alcohol responses are not attributable to differences in weekly alcohol intake, pharmacokinetic effects (eg, absorption rates), or familial risk of AUDs. These observations suggest that the dampened intoxication may contribute to the increased rates of alcohol misuse in young people at-risk for BD, and suggest possible shared etiological factors in the development of AUDs and BD.

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Section: Measures Of Subjective Effectsmentioning

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Reduced Subjective Response to Acute Ethanol Administration Among Young Men with a Broad Bipolar Phenotype

Yip

Doherty

Wakeley

et al. 2012

Neuropsychopharmacol

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“…Breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) was collected 5 min after the first two drinks, before and after the booster drink, and at the end of the experiment by using the Lion alcolmeter SD-400 (Lion Laboratories Limited, South Glamorgan, Wales). Participants filled out the Brief Biphasic Alcohol Effects Scale (B-BAES, Rueger et al, 2009) each time a breath sample was taken, except before the booster drink.…”

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Alcohol-Induced Changes in Conflict Monitoring and Error Detection as Predictors of Alcohol Use in Late Adolescence

Korucuoglu

Gladwin

Wiers

2014

Neuropsychopharmacol

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Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the development of substance use and related problems. Understanding how exposure to drugs influences the adolescent brain could reveal mechanisms underlying risk for addiction later in life. In the current study, 87 adolescents (16-20-year olds; the local legal drinking age was16, allowing the inclusion of younger subjects than usually possible) underwent EEG measurements during a Go/No-Go task with and without alcohol cues; after placebo and a low dose of alcohol (0.45 g/kg). Conflict monitoring and error detection processes were investigated with the N2 and the error-related negativity (ERN) ERP components. Participants were followed-up after 6 months to assess changes in alcohol use. The NoGo-N2 was larger for alcohol cues and acute alcohol decreased the amplitude of the NoGo-N2 for alcohol cues. ERN amplitude was blunted for alcohol cues. Acute alcohol decreased the amplitude of the ERN, specifically for control cues. Furthermore, the differences in ERN for alcohol cues between the placebo and alcohol conditions predicted alcohol use 6 months later: subjects who showed stronger blunting of the ERN after acute alcohol were more likely to return to more moderate drinking patterns. These results suggest that cues signalling reward opportunities might activate a go-response mode and larger N2 (detection of increased conflict) for these cues might be necessary for inhibition. The ERN results suggest a deficiency in the monitoring system for alcohol cues. Finally, a lack of alcohol-induced deterioration of error monitoring for cues with high salience might be a vulnerability factor for alcohol abuse in adolescents.

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“…It is accepted that persons at higher risk of developing alcohol related problems and disorders (including especially the sons of alcoholics) -as opposed to persons of lower riskexperience stronger positive, stimulating effects of alcohol in the stage of its increasing level in the blood, and weaker negative, sedative effects as levels fall. These theories and associated study results indicate the particular importance of an accurate and welldifferentiated measure of the stimulatory and sedative effects of alcohol [6].…”

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“…The rapid rise of alcohol level in the blood, at the initial phase of dose consumption, is normally associated with relatively short-term, generally positive reactions of a stimulating character. However, when the excretion stage of consumed alcohol takes place, together with the fall of its levels in the blood, much more longer-lasting reactions of a sedative nature are noted [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Figure 1 illustrates this order of events.…”

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“…Figure 1 illustrates this order of events. The stimulating and at once sedative effects of alcohol are confirmed by tests conducted on animals and humans referring to the various indicators of these effects (psychomotorical, psychological and neurobiological) [2,3,6,7]. As research has proven, the experience of the biphasic short-term effects of alcohol consumption is associated with the influence of alcohol on particular brain neurotransmission systems, including mainly dopamine, serotonin, noradrenalin and GABA systems [8].…”

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A subjective assessment of the short-term effects of alcohol consumption. Preliminary studies on the Polish language adaptation of “The Biphasic Alcohol Effects Scale”

Poprawa¹

2015

Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

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Keywords:Subjective effects of drinking Biphasic alcohol effects Alcohol effect expectations Measurement Validation A B S T R A C T Introduction: The short-term effects of alcohol consumption are experienced as biphasic, depending on the stage of its metabolisation. Usually at the beginning of the consumption, while the level of alcohol in blood is increasing, it is generally perceived as a stimulant and when decreasing as a sedative. Martin et al.'s Biphasic Alcohol Effects Scale (BAES) is a self-reported measure of short-term effects of drinking. The aim of the study was to prepare the Polish adaptation of the scale in order to determine its reliability and offer a preliminary assessment of validity. Materials and methods: The modified Polish adaptation of BAES is now complete as Skala Efektów Picia Alkoholu (SEPA) (Scale of Alcohol Drinking Effects). To validate SEPA, Poprawa's Alcohol Use Scale and Polish adaptation of Fromme, Stroot and Kaplan's Comprehensive Effects of Alcohol Questionnaire were used. The research was conducted on two independent samples of young adults: N = 331 and N = 222. Results: Two-factor structure of SEPA and validity of modifications were confirmed both in the assessment of moderate and high alcohol dosages. The tool's reliability indicators were very good. Both subscales of sedative and stimulant effects adequately and significantly correlate with the expected effects of drinking. The results of the subscale of stimulating effects positively correlate with the expectations of positive effects of alcohol and the results of the subscale of sedative effects -with negative expectations of alcohol.Peer review under responsibility

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Expanding the Utility of the Biphasic Alcohol Effects Scale (BAES) and Initial Psychometric Support for the Brief‐BAES (B‐BAES)

Cited by 69 publications

References 39 publications

Reduced Subjective Response to Acute Ethanol Administration Among Young Men with a Broad Bipolar Phenotype

Reduced Subjective Response to Acute Ethanol Administration Among Young Men with a Broad Bipolar Phenotype

Alcohol-Induced Changes in Conflict Monitoring and Error Detection as Predictors of Alcohol Use in Late Adolescence

A subjective assessment of the short-term effects of alcohol consumption. Preliminary studies on the Polish language adaptation of “The Biphasic Alcohol Effects Scale”

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