NIDA-Modified Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test

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NM-ASSIST
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Description
NMASSIST is a screening tool for drug use in general medical settings. Also called NIDA Quick Screen, it is a web-based interactive tool that guides clinicians through a short series of screening questions and, based on the patient's responses, generates a substance involvement score that suggests the level of intervention needed. The tool also provides links to resources for conducting a brief intervention and treatment referral, if warranted. This screening instrument, a modified version of the World Health Organization's Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST), is appropriate for patients age 18 or older. It can be completed by either a clinician or the patient using an online form or a printed version of the instrument, and is easily scored. It provides information about the substances people have ever used in their lifetime, the substances used in the last three months, problems related to substance use, risk of current or future harm, dependence, and injecting drug use.
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Substance Use
Subcategory
Drugs

Negotiation Skills Behavior Assessment

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NSBA
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Negotiation skill is measured by (4-point Likert scale) assessor ratings of the extent of 4 basic negotiation skills demonstrated in participants’ completion of sexual risk vignettes. These skills are: assertiveness (in demanding safer sex from partners); informativeness (about the need for safer sex); ability to anticipate high-risk situations (demonstrated by mention of carrying condoms); and implementation (of safer sex skills). A total skill score can be obtained by summing these. A count of number of alternative solutions is generated. A count of number of obstacles identified is generated.
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Sexual Behavior/HIV

Mini-Mental State Exam

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MMSE
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The MMSE is a brief, easily administered, quantitative measure of cognitive status in adults. It can be used to screen for cognitive impairment (such as Alzheimer's disease), to estimate the severity of cognitive impairment at a given point in time, to follow the course of cognitive changes in an individual over time, and to document an individual's response to treatment. The MMSE has demonstrated validity and reliability in psychiatric, neurologic, geriatric, and other medical populations. It is a fully structured scale that consists of 30 points grouped into 7 categories: orientation to place and to time, registration, attention and concentration, recall language, and visual construction. It is scored in terms of the number of correctly completed items. The test takes about 5-10 minutes to administer. The test has been used as the primary cognitive screening instrument in several large-scale epidemiolgical studies of dementia. It is also widely used in clinical practice and is often reported in research studies as a benchmark of the severity of dementia that can be used to compare patient cohorts across studies. The MMSE is insensitive to mild cognitive impairment, lacks diagnostic specificity, and may not be sensitive to education, literacy, or visual problems. The 3MS (Modified Mini- Mental State Exam) tests for both dementia and cognitive impairment. It is a 27-item questionnaire (19 MMSE plus 8 additional) that tests orientation to time and place, attention, concentration, long- and short-term memory, language, and abstract thinking. It takes 5-15 minutes to complete, is well-validated and is used in a variety of settings (Teng, 1987). Population: Adults

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Mental Health
Subcategory
Dementia
General/Multiple Disorders

Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview

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MINI
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The Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I.) is a short, structured, diagnostic interview, developed jointly by psychiatrists and clinicians in the United States and Europe, for DSM-IV and ICD-10 psychiatric disorders. The diagnostic criteria of the MINI are based on DSM-IV. With an administration time of approximately 15 minutes, it was designed to meet the need for a short but accurate structured psychiatric interview for multicenter clinical trials and epidemiology studies, and to be used as a first step in outcome tracking in clinical settings. The MINI appears to be easily incorporated into routine clinical interviews and has good acceptance by patients (Pinninti et al, 2003). The interview consists of 16 modules, each with about 8-10 questions.
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Substance Use
Subcategory
Diagnostic

MicroCog

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MC
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The MicroCog™ (Powell et al. 2004) is a computer -administered battery of tests assessing neurocognitive functioning. Five subtests are selected for use in this study in the following domains: memory, sustained focus attention, inductive reasoning, concept formation and cognitive flexibility, and visuoperceptual analysis.
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Impulsivity and General Trait & Behavior Scales

Massachusetts General Hospital Cognitive and Physical Functioning Questionnaire

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CPFQ
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MGH Cognitive and Physical Functioning Questionnaire (CPFQ; Fava et al, 2006). The CPFQ isa 7-item self-report measure that assesses physical well-being and cognitive and executive dysfunction. Answers range on a 6-point scale from “greater than normal” to “totally absent”, with higher scores indicating poorer functioning. The CPFQ has been shown to have high internal consistency with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.90 and test-retest reliability (0.83, p
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