Two Brief Measures of Alcohol Use Produce Different Results: AUDIT-C and Quick Drinking Screen.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several psychometrically sound measures of alcohol use have been developed to assess drinking. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and its shorter counterpart the AUDIT-C, which contains the first 3 AUDIT questions, were developed by the World Health Organization and have become the preferred brief measures for screening and evaluating problem severity. This study compared the first 3 questions on the AUDIT with another psychometrically sound brief measure of alcohol use, the Quick Drinking Screen (QDS).

Methods

Data were obtained from a randomized controlled trial of a mail-based intervention promoting self-change with 472 alcohol abusers (n = 280, no prior alcohol treatment; n = 192, prior alcohol treatment). Participants' retrospective self-re

SUBMITTER: Letourneau B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5404981 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature