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Utility of the AUDIT for identification of hazardous or harmful drinking in drug-dependent patients
- Source :
- Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 45:157-163
- Publication Year :
- 1997
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1997.
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Abstract
- We evaluated the psychometric properties of the alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT), a ten-item screening test for identification of hazardous drinkers, in a sample of 82 patients with DSM-III-R drug dependence. AUDIT showed good internal consistency ( α = 0.94) and a unitary factor structure. Receiver operating characteristics analysis showed the AUDIT to be comparable to the Michigan alcoholism screening test (MAST) in identifying individuals with a current alcohol use disorder and superior to the MAST for those who are hazardous drinkers. In this patient sample, AUDIT performed well at the recommended cut-off score of ≥ 8. We recommend use of the AUDIT for identification of hazardous and harmful drinking among individuals with a drug use disorder.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Alcohol Drinking
Psychometrics
Substance-Related Disorders
Poison control
Alcohol use disorder
Audit
Toxicology
Sensitivity and Specificity
Reference Values
Injury prevention
Humans
Medicine
Pharmacology (medical)
Risk factor
Psychiatry
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Pharmacology
Analysis of Variance
Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test
business.industry
Middle Aged
Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test
medicine.disease
Psychiatry and Mental health
Cross-Sectional Studies
ROC Curve
Emergency medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03768716
- Volume :
- 45
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Drug and Alcohol Dependence
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b64c797dd896b9e4bfa801998eb3acd9