title: Reliability of the Weak Opiate Withdrawal Scale for inter-city opiate users.
abstract: The reliability (Kuder-Richardson 20) of the 84-item Weak Opiate Withdrawal Scale was estimated for a sample of 70 inner-city men who used opiates and had passed through the acute withdrawal stage. Analysis suggested modification of the scale to exclude negatively worded as well as cognitively sophisticated items which elicit unreliable and paradoxical responses from this population.
authors.affiliation: New York University, Department of Applied Psychology, NY 10003, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Juni
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hanson
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ottomanelli
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City; D009293:Opioid-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D014505:Urban Population