NCI supported researchers at Brown University, Dr. Suzanne Colby and Dr. Johanna Lewis-Esquerre, to develop a measures guide for youth tobacco research following NCI's June 2000 Youth Tobacco Research Meeting in Denver, CO. The guide is intended as a resource for anyone conducting research on youth tobacco use or intervening with adolescent tobacco users, such as clinicians and public health practitioners. The standardized and psychometrically sound measures presented in this guide were compiled via a detailed method involving its developers and researchers submitting measures for inclusion. The developers used the following inclusion criteria to evaluate each submission: English language, smoking/tobacco/nicotine, quantitative score, data from adolescents, psychometric data, published in a peer-reviewed journal, and has an identifiable name. They then examined the source articles for each measure and drafted the summary and instrument, which was then subjected to a second review. The revised, accepted measures were formalized for inclusion in the online measures guide.
The guide will assist researchers in achieving consistency of measurement across studies for describing smoking patterns, establishing inclusion and exclusion criteria for participation, measuring potentially important mediators and moderators of treatment outcomes, and measuring tobacco use outcomes. Each measure is briefly described and details are provided about the target population, administrative issues, scoring information, psychometrics, clinical utility of the instrument, research applicability, copyright /cost issues, references, authorship and author's contact information.
NCI extends its sincerest thanks to Dr. Suzanne Colby and Dr. Johanna Lewis-Esquerre for their leadership and dedication to this project.
Categories on this page:
Advertising Receptivity | Beliefs and Expectancies | Smoking Susceptibility | Dependence | Friends/Family Smoking | Mood | Problems | Smoking Behavior | Stressors | Temptations to Smoke | Self-Efficacy | Validity of Self-Report
| Advertising Receptivity | |
| Receptivity | John P. Pierce, Ph.D. |
| Beliefs and Expectancies | |
| Tobacco Motives Inventory | Thomas A. Wills, Ph.D. |
| Adolescent Smoking Consequences Questionnaire | Johanna M. Lewis-Esquerre, Ph.D. |
| Fishbein-Azjen-Hanson Questionnaire | Mary Jane S. Hanson, Ph.D., C.R.N.P. |
| Postive Negative Outcome Expectancies | Madeline Dalton, Ph.D. |
| Smoking Decisional Balance | Wayne F. Velicer |
| Short form- Smoking Consequences Questionnaire | Mark G. Myers, Ph.D. |
| Smoking Susceptibility | |
| Susceptibility | John P. Pierce, Ph.D. |
| Jackson's Smoking Susceptibility | Christine Jackson, Ph.D. |
| Dependence | |
| Cigarette Dependence Five Item Scale (CDS-5) | Jean-Francois Etter, Ph.D., M.P.H |
| Cigarette Dependence Twelve Item Scale (CDS-12) | Jean-Francois Etter, Ph.D., M.P.H. |
| Hooked on Nicotine Checklist (HONC) | Joseph DiFranza, M.D. |
| Modified Version of the Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire (mFTQ) |
Alexander V. Prokhorov, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Stanford Dependence Inventory (SDI) | Joel D. Killen, Ph.D. |
| Nicotine Dependence Scale for Adolescents | James M. Nonnemaker, Ph.D. |
| Friends/Family Smoking | |
| Peer and Family Smoking | John P. Pierce, Ph.D. |
| Mood | |
| Depressive Symptoms | J. P. Pierce, Ph.D. |
| Negative and Positive Affect Scales | Thomas A. Wills, Ph.D. |
| Problems | |
| Tobacco and Alcohol Problems Measure | Thomas A. Wills, Ph.D. |
| Smoking Behavior | |
| Uptake Continuum | John P. Pierce, Ph.D. |
| Stressors | |
| Negative Life Events Inventory | Thomas A. Wills, Ph.D. |
| Temptations to Smoke | |
| Temptations to Smoke - Smoker | Wayne F. Velicer, Ph.D. |
| Temptations to Smoke -Non-smoker | Wayne F. Velicer, Ph.D |
| Self-Efficacy | |
| Self-efficacy scale | Lyn Lawrance, Ph.D. |
| Validity of Self-Report | |
| Perceptions of Self-Report | L.A.R. Stein, Ph.D. |