Citation

Madson MB, Schutts JW, Jordan HR, Villarosa-Hurlocker MC, Whitley RB, Mohn RS. Assessment 2018; ePub(ePub): 1073191118792091.

Affiliation

1 The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1073191118792091

PMID

30066577

Abstract

The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is the gold standard screening measure. Recently, there has been increasing call to update the measure to reflect harmful drinking standards in the United States. The purpose of this study was to use receiver operating characteristic curve analysis to evaluate the AUDIT and the United States version (AUDIT-US). Participants were 382 traditional age ( M = 20.2, SD = 1.5) college students (68.7% female, 64.9% White) who had consumed alcohol at least once in the 30 days prior to participating. Although results provide evidence for the AUDIT and the AUDIT-US as valid screening tools, the Consumption subscale of the AUDIT-US performed the best in predicting at-risk college drinkers. The Consumption subscale of the AUDIT-US with a single cutoff score of four appears to be the optimal and most parsimonious method of identifying at-risk college drinkers.

Language: en

Keywords

Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test; at-risk drinking; college students; screening