- Title
- Interpretation of items on the AUDIT questionnaire
- Creator
- Kypri, Kypros; Saunders, John B.; Langley, John D.; Dean, Johanna I.
- Relation
- Alcohol & Alcoholism Vol. 37, Issue 5, p. 465-467
- Relation
- http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/37/5/465
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2002
- Description
- Aim: To test for the possibility that tertiary students misinterpret certain items on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). Method: Responses to alternative question wordings were compared with responses to standard items. Results: Alterations to items 5 and 9, so that consequences of drinking epitomised in these items were more specifically defined, resulted in markedly different response distributions to the item but the total AUDIT score was not changed Conclusion: Caution is necessary before using individual AUDIT items as measures of consequences in population surveys, and the possibility of false positives in total scores should be born in mind.
- Subject
- tertiary; students; AUDIT; epidemiology; screening
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/31032
- Identifier
- uon:2741
- Identifier
- ISSN:0735-0414
- Rights
- This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Alcohol & Alcoholism following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version 41. 46. 47. Kypri K, McGee R, Saunders JB, Langley JD, & Dean JI (2002). Interpretation of items on the AUDIT questionnaire. Alcohol and Alcoholism 37(5) 465-7. is available online at: http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/37/5/465
- Language
- eng
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