Leeds Dependence Questionnaire

Abstract

There are two subgraphs X, Y of the 2-dimensional integer grid such that for any k < l there is an infinite subset I ⊂ N such that the k-wiring profile of X into Y grows quadratically on I while the l-wiring profile of X into Y grows linearly on I. This resolves Question 7.8 of Barrett-Hume.

Letter to the Editor

“…Just over one fifth of the sample consumed less than 50 units (the authors stated that inclusion criteria were 50 units for men and 35 units for women), 33% consumed 50-75 units per week and 27% consumed over 100 units in the past week. They compare their sample with the three samples presented by Raistrick et al (1994): a heavier drinking clinical population, with higher dependence scores than the Hartney et al sample, a much less heavy drinking student population with comparable dependence scores, and a normal drinking general population with low dependence scores.…”

“…11,No. 5, Hartney et al describe a sample of untreated heavy drinkers who obtained relatively low scores on the Leeds Dependence Questionnaire (Raistrick et al, 1994;Heather et al, 2001). Just over one fifth of the sample consumed less than 50 units (the authors stated that inclusion criteria were 50 units for men and 35 units for women), 33% consumed 50-75 units per week and 27% consumed over 100 units in the past week.…”

“…Presentation of both the quantitative data (LDQ scores) and qualitative data (interview accounts), give valuable and additional support to the nature of the dependence construct as described by Raistrick et al (1994) and measured by their scale, the LDQ. Furthermore, combination of these findings lends weight to the importance of disaggregating dependence from consumption and harm Edwards et al (1982).…”

“…Furthermore, combination of these findings lends weight to the importance of disaggregating dependence from consumption and harm Edwards et al (1982). Raistrick et al (1994) described dependence as a cognitive behavioural construct derived from responses to drinking cues, be those biological, social or cognitive cues. They stressed that it was not the nature of the cues, but the nature of the response to those cues, and most centrally the degree of control experienced, which was the essence of the dependent state.…”

Adaptación al español de la Substance Dependence Severity Scale: resultados preliminares

“…Otras escalas, en cambio, han adoptado un modelo de evaluación dimensional, en el que los pacientes se sitúan en un continuo de gravedad de dependencia. Esta perspectiva ha sido incorporada en distintos instrumentos como el Severity of Dependence Questionnaire (Stockwell et al, 1983), el 39-item Alcohol Dependence Data -ADD- (Raistrick, Dunbar y Davidson, 1983), el Severity of Dependence Scale -SDS- (Gossop et al, 1995) o el Leeds Dependence Questionnaire -LDQ- (Raistrick et al, 1994). No obstante, estas escalas no siguen expresamente los criterios fijados por los sistemas nosológicos CIE-10 y DSM-IV, de ahí que sean vistos fundamentalmente como instrumentos de screening.…”