Because alcohol use can affect your health and can interfere with certain medications and treatments, it is important that we ask some questions about your use of alcohol. Your answers will remain confidential so please be honest.
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About this screener — evidence, source
The first three questions of the WHO AUDIT (frequency, typical quantity, and heavy-episodic drinking), scored 0–12. Validated as a stand-alone screen for alcohol misuse (hazardous drinking or alcohol use disorder) with sex-specific thresholds. A positive screen is usually followed by the full AUDIT or a clinical assessment.
Evidence · validated
In 1,319 US family-practice patients (Bradley et al., 2007), AUROCs were 0.94 in men and 0.90 in women, matching the full AUDIT. Optimal thresholds for alcohol misuse were ≥ 4 in men (sensitivity 0.86, specificity 0.89) and ≥ 3 in women (sensitivity 0.73, specificity 0.91), the same as in earlier VA studies (Bush et al., 1998).
Source & licence
Bush K, Kivlahan DR, McDonell MB, Fihn SD, Bradley KA. The AUDIT alcohol consumption questions (AUDIT-C): an effective brief screening test for problem drinking. Arch Intern Med. 1998;158(16):1789–1795. Bradley KA, DeBenedetti AF, Volk RJ, Williams EC, Frank D, Kivlahan DR. AUDIT-C as a brief screen for alcohol misuse in primary care. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2007;31(7):1208–1217. Items from: Babor TF, Higgins-Biddle JC, Saunders JB, Monteiro MG. AUDIT: The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test — Guidelines for Use in Primary Care. 2nd ed. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2001 (WHO/MSD/MSB/01.6a). Saunders JB, Aasland OG, Babor TF, de la Fuente JR, Grant M. Development of the AUDIT: WHO collaborative project on early detection of persons with harmful alcohol consumption — II. Addiction. 1993;88(6):791–804.
Licence: Free for non-commercial use — WHO states the manual “may be freely reviewed, abstracted, reproduced, and translated, in part or in whole but not for sale or for use in conjunction with commercial purposes.” The AUDIT-C uses the first three AUDIT questions unchanged.
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