Psychometric validation of the Diagnostic Assessment Research Tool: Alcohol use disorder module.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Structured clinical interviewing is considered the gold standard in psychiatric diagnosis. The Diagnostic Assessment Research Tool (DART) is a novel modularized, non-copywritten, semi-structured interview; however, no studies have examined the psychometric properties of its alcohol use disorder (AUD) module. The primary aims of this study were to: (i) validate the factor structure of the DART AUD module and (ii) examine measurement invariance across several key demographic and subgroup factors.

Methods

Participants were community members in Hamilton, Canada and Boston, USA who self-identified as making a significant AUD recovery attempt (N = 499). Internal reliability was examined via the Kuder-Richardson 20 statistic, and correlations between symptom count and drinking

SUBMITTER: Garber ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11670930 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature