Chunk #58 — ABCD substance use battery: baseline measures — Assessment of low level use and number of sips or puffs of cannabis and nicotine (Youth-Administered) — Alcohol low level use (iSay Sip Inventory)
In order to characterize participants’ earliest sipping experience, we adapted items used by Jackson (Jackson et al., 2015) to determine the extent and context of sipping/tasting, which has been linked with heavy drinking in later adolescence (Jackson et al., 2015). Specifically, at baseline we assessed the number of times the child has sipped alcohol, whether or not such sipping was part of a religious ceremony, the age of onset of sipping, the context in which this occurred, the type of alcohol it was, and whether or not the alcohol was offered to the child or whether it was taken without permission. We also query whether or not a full drink was consumed. The first sip qualitative information will only be collected once per youth, although total number of past year sips (religious and non-religious) will be collected for each youth who has not consumed a full drink for each assessment period.
