ArticleJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2026
More Than a Symptom Count: Measuring Functioning in Alcohol Use Disorder With the Life Stress Interview.
Article in Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveThe alcohol field has increasingly recognized that functioning plays a key role in the clinical course of alcohol use disorder (AUD). However, there remains a need for comprehensive instruments that capture functioning in this population. This study examined the utility of the UCLA Life Stress Interview Chronic Stress Assessment (LSI), a functional domains-based assessment widely used in mood disorder research, as a tool to measure functioning in key life domains in AUD. We (a) compared LSI scores between individuals with and without current AUD and (b) examined whether LSI scores are associated with recent alcohol use and AUD symptomology.
methodThis secondary case-control study included 38 adults with AUD and 35 age- and biological sex-matched controls. The LSI was used to assess functioning in interpersonal, occupational, personal health, and family health domains over the prior 6 months. The Timeline Followback was used to assess recent alcohol use, and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 was used to assess AUD symptomology.
resultsIndividuals with AUD exhibited significantly poorer interpersonal, occupational, and personal health functioning, compared with controls. Among individuals with AUD, worse interpersonal, occupational, and personal health functioning correlated with a higher number of AUD symptoms, and both interpersonal and occupational functioning also correlated with greater recent alcohol use.
conclusionsThis secondary study provides preliminary support for the LSI as a tool to assess functioning in AUD, offering an unbiased, addiction-independent evaluation of functioning across key domains. Future work should replicate results in larger samples, conduct a formal psychometric evaluation, and examine the effects of biological, demographic, and clinical factors.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.