title: Application of the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) instrument: an integrative review.
abstract: Objective To systematize the knowledge and the learning of how the instrument Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) has been applied. Method Integrative review, performed from May to July 2014, searching the databases Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Literature (LILACS), Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (Medline), PubMed and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), as well as in the search system of the Portal of Journals of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). We selected 26 articles. Results ASSIST focused on helping the identification and classification of psychoactive substances use, and it has proved to be important in screening the involvement with alcohol and other drugs, and effectiveness in primary health care. Conclusion It was confirmed as an instrument to be used in Health Care.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Catalão, Goiás, Brasil.
authors.forename: Andrécia Cósmen da
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Catalão, Goiás, Brasil.
authors.forename: Roselma
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lucchese
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Centro Universitário do Cerrado Patrocínio, Patrocínio, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
authors.forename: Lorena Silva
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Vargas
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Catalão, Goiás, Brasil.
authors.forename: Patrícia Rosa
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Benício
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Catalão, Goiás, Brasil.
authors.forename: Ivânia
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vera
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015813:Substance Abuse Detection; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014944:World Health Organization