AUDIT
ValidatedAlcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)
Adults (18+)Self, Clinician~3 min10 questions
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.
Report details · optional
Shown on the report and stored with the screening record. Use initials or a code, not full names.
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About this screener — evidence, source
Ten questions developed in a six-country WHO study to detect hazardous and harmful drinking and possible dependence over the past year. Questions 1–3 cover consumption, 4–6 dependence symptoms and 7–10 alcohol-related harm. The total (0–40) places the person in one of four WHO risk zones, each linked to a level of intervention from alcohol education to specialist referral.
Evidence · validated
In the six-country WHO development samples a cut-off of 8 gave sensitivities for various indices of problem drinking generally in the mid-0.90s, with specificities averaging in the 0.80s (Saunders et al., 1993). Many later studies in primary care and other settings confirm good sensitivity and acceptable specificity for ICD-10 alcohol use disorders at a cut-off of 8 (WHO manual, 2001). Sensitivity may be lower in people over 65.
Source & licence
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.”
Wording from the WHO self-report version (Box 10), with the interview version’s skip-outs applied automatically. Question 3 may be adapted locally (to 4 or 5 drinks) where a standard drink is larger than 10 g.
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