title: [Ten questions about alcohol as identifier of addiction problems. Psychometric tests at an emergency psychiatric department].
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.
authors.affiliation: Institutionen för klinisk neurovetenskap, Beroendecentrum, Nord.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bergman
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Källmén
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Rydberg
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sandahl
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D011786:Quality Control; D012307:Risk Factors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D013548:Sweden
vernacular_title: Tio frågor om alkohol identifierar beroendeproblem. Psykometrisk prövning på psykiatrisk akutmottagning.