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177009 Reliability and validity of the Spanish RBA: Translation issues, protocol drift, and drug distribution patterns

Monday, October 27, 2008

Michele M. Wood, PhD , School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Dennis G. Fisher, PhD , Center for Behavioral Research and Services, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Alexander Rainof, PhD , Department of Romance, German, Russisan Languages & Literatures, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Judith M. Siegel, PhD, MSHyg , School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Learning Objectives:
1. The audience will be able to describe the internal consistency reliability of English and Spanish measures assessing crack, cocaine, and heroin use. 2. The audience will be able to describe the validity of self-reports of cocaine and heroin use. 3. The audience will be able to discuss the importance of assessing the reliability and validity of translated instruments measuring drug use in the context of HIV and STD risk.

Keywords: Evaluation, Out-of-Treatment Drug Users

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I conceived and carried out the work.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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