Citation

Bergman H, Källmén H, Rydberg U, Sandahl C. Lakartidningen 1998; 95(43): 4731-4735.

Vernacular Title

Tio fragor om alkohol identifierar beroendeproblem. Psykometrisk provning pa

Affiliation

Institutionen för klinisk neurovetenskap, Beroendecentrum, Nord.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Sveriges Lakarforbund)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9821761

Abstract

It is important to develop and evaluate methods of identifying alcohol dependent patients and patients at risk of alcohol problems. The World Health Organisation recommends a 10-item questionnaire, AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test), which assesses hazardous alcohol use, dependence symptoms, and harmful alcohol use. The article describes a Swedish version of AUDIT that has been psychometrically tested on a sample of patients admitted to a psychiatric emergency ward. Both internal consistency, reliability and validity were found to be satisfactory in terms of sensitivity and specificity in predicting DSM alcoholism diagnoses.

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