title: Validation of the criteria for DSM diagnosis of cocaine abuse and cocaine dependence.
abstract: The concurrent external validity of the diagnosis of cocaine abuse, based on the DSM criteria, is shown to be established to an unexpectedly high degree, based on a method of determining the association between a summary score derived by quantifying the DSM criteria and another summary score derived from weighting several measures of frequency of use of cocaine and a measure of its mode of use. The degree of validity was cross-validated by performing the same analysis on two study samples: one of inpatients (N = 179) and one of urban-community African-Americans (N = 204).
authors.affiliation: Belmont Center for Comprehensive Treatment, Research Department, Philadelphia, PA 19131, USA.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cacciola
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D019970:Cocaine-Related Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010343:Patient Admission; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014505:Urban Population