title: Clinical and research utility of Spanish Teen-Addiction Severity Index (T-ASI).
abstract: This paper aims to test the clinical and research utility of a Spanish version of the Teen-Addiction Severity Index (T-ASI) in adolescents with psychiatric disorders attending a treatment programme. Eighty adolescents, 12 to 17 years old (Mean=14.5; SD=1.48) were evaluated with a research battery including the T-ASI to obtain data on socio-demographics, psychopathology, drug use, family environment and school achievement. The Substance Use scale of the T-ASI correlated significantly (Rho=0.90, p</=0.01) with an ordinal measure of "pattern of any drug use", and with "subjective problems with drugs" (rank 0-32) (Rho=0.69, p</=0.01). All T-ASI scales, except Psychiatric Status, showed significant correlations with externalized scores of the Children's Behavior Checklist (CBC) and also discriminated between patients with and without Substance Use Disorders. To conclude, Spanish version of the T-ASI shows adequate psychometric properties to be used as a clinical and research instrument in Spanish-speaking adolescents with psychiatric disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. diaz@clinic.ub.es
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Díaz
authors.forename: Josefina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Castro-Fornieles
authors.forename: Lourdes
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Serrano
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: González
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Calvo
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Goti
authors.forename: Yifrah
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kaminer
authors.forename: Antoni
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gual
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013030:Spain; D016320:Substance Abuse Treatment Centers; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*