BAM-IOP

Validated

Brief Addiction Monitor – IOP version (BAM, past 7 days)

Adults (18+) in substance use treatmentSelf, Clinician~5 min23 questions

This is a standard set of questions about several areas of your life such as your health, alcohol and drug use, etc. The questions generally ask about the past 7 days. Please consider each question and answer as accurately as possible.

Report details · optional

Patient initials / IDCompleted byDate

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

A progress-monitoring tool for measurement-based care in substance use disorder treatment (not a case-finding screen). Items cover the past 7 days: physical health, sleep, mood, alcohol and drug use by substance, craving, confidence, self-help, risky situations, spirituality, work, income, conflict, support and satisfaction with recovery. Three composite scores — Use, Risk and Protective — are tracked over time.

Evidence · validated

Developed and evaluated in 175 patients entering VA outpatient substance-use treatment: three factors with alphas at or near 0.70, sensitivity to change, excellent test–retest reliability, and predictive validity for the recovery-protection and substance-use/risk factors (Cacciola et al., 2013). The IOP (7-day) version is adapted from the original 30-day BAM. VA states there are no norms or cut-scores for the composite scores.

Source & licence

Cacciola JS, Alterman AI, DePhilippis D, Drapkin ML, Valadez C, Fala NC, Oslin D, McKay JR. Development and initial evaluation of the Brief Addiction Monitor (BAM). J Subst Abuse Treat. 2013;44(3):256–263. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Mental Health: BAM IOP version (7 days).

Licence: Public domain — the VA Office of Mental Health BAM instructions state "The BAM is in the public domain."

Items from the VA BAM IOP version form (https://mentalhealth.va.gov/MENTALHEALTH/healthcare-providers/docs/VA_OMH_BAM_IOP_7-Days_508.pdf); scoring formulas from the VA instructions (item 14: No = 0, Yes = 4). The form's per-item completion dates and repeated weekly columns are not reproduced.

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