Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test

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Abbreviation
AUDIT
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"The AUDIT was developed by Tom Babor and others for the World Health Organization to identify persons whose alcohol consumption has become hazardous or harmful to their health. It is a 10-item screening questionnaire with 3 questions on the amount and frequency of drinking, 3 questions on alcohol dependence, and 4 on problems caused by alcohol. All of the questions are scored using a 5-point Likert scale. The AUDIT takes under 2 minutes to administer. The AUDIT screening procedure in clinical settings is linked to a decision process that includes brief intervention with heavy drinkers, or referral to specialized treatment for patients who show evidence of more serious alcohol involvement. Populations appropriate for a screening program using the AUDIT include primary care, emergency room, surgery, and psychiatric patients; DWI offenders, criminals in court, jail and prison; enlisted men in the Armed Forces; workers encountered in employee assistance programs and industrial settings; and college students. Another feature of the AUDIT is the optional Clinical Screening Procedure, which consists of two questions about traumatic injury, five items on clinical examination, and a blood test (the serum GGT). The Clinical Screening Procedure does not refer directly to problems with alcohol and may be particularly relevant for defensive patients in situations where alcohol-specific questions cannot be asked with confidence. The AUDIT is currently being used in a variety of research projects and epidemiological studies. Research guidelines incorporated into the AUDIT manual suggest further research using this instrument."

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Substance Use
Subcategory
Alcohol

Adult Clinician Diagnostic Scale

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ACD
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This semi-structured interview has been used in a variety of clinical trials studying adult-ADHD. It includes 84 items and addresses symptoms of attention hyperactivity deficit disorder beginning in childhood and ending with "the past 12 months." Questions cover symptoms such as "makes a lot of careless mistakes," "difficulty sustaining attention on tasks/play activities," "doesn't listen," "difficulty following instructions," difficulty organizing tasks," "dislikes/avoids tasks requiring attention," "loses things," "fidget," "difficulty remaining seated," "blurts out answers," and "talks excessively." The final four items in the scale are a "checklist summary" to assist researchers with determining whether or not the patient meets the standard criteria for ADHD ("significant and sufficient current ADHD symptoms," "significant impairment in two or more settings," e.g.). This scale has been used in numerous clinical trials, including NIDA's National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network.
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Mental Health
Subcategory
ADHD

Adult ADHD Self Report Rating Scale

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ASRS
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The ASRS-V1.1 Screener (Copyright © 2003 World Health Organization; Kessler et al., in press) is a 6-item questionnaire that has been shown to have concurrent validity with DSM-IV criteria for ADHD in adult studies. This scale, while not formally validated in adolescents, has been used in previous research studies with adolescents. It was chosen for use in the present study since there is no validated, accepted standard self report screening assessment for ADHD in adolescents. The ASRS-V1.1 will be administered by clinical research staff (MC, RA) incorporated in the prescreening interview, or by clinical staff at the participating community treatment program (CTP) as part of their outpatient admission packet. Adolescents who appear to meet prescreening criteria for ADHD in addition to other pre-screening criteria will be invited to make an appointment for more extensive baseline screening and assessment. The ASRS-V1.1 will be re-administered to adolescents after consent/assent as part of the screening/baseline assessment battery.
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Mental Health
Subcategory
ADHD

Adult ADHD Investigator Symptom Rating Scale

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Abbreviation
AISRS
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This scale was developed to better capture symptoms of ADHD in adult patients. It uses a semi-structured interview methodology with suggested prompts for each item to improve inter-rater reliability. The scale's 18 items directly correspond to the 18 DSM-IV symptoms of ADHD where 9 inattentive items alternate with 9 hyperactive-impulsive items. Items include questions such as "Do you make careless mistakes when working on a boring or difficult project?", "Do you fidget or squirm with your hands or feet when you have to sit down for a long time?", and "Do you have difficulty waiting your turn in situations when turn taking is required?" Each item includes a series of additional questions that the interviewer can use to further prompt the participant (for example, for the item on waiting your turn, prompts include, "Are you frequently frustrated with delays? Do you put a great deal of effort into planning to not be in situations where you might have to wait").
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Impulsivity and General Trait & Behavior Scales
Subcategory
ADHD

Adjective Rating Scale for Withdrawal

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ARSW
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The ARSW is comprised of 16 signs and symptoms of opioid withdrawal. Patients rate themselves on a scale ranging from 0 (none) to 9 (severe) (maximum cumulative score = 144) on the following items: muscle cramps, depressed or sad, painful joints, excessive yawning, hot or cold flashes, trouble getting to sleep, sick to stomach, irritable, runny nose, poor appetite, weak knees, excessive sneezing, tense and jittery, watery eyes, abdominal cramps, and fitful sleep.
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Substance Use

Adherence / Competence Rating Scales

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Abbreviation
ASTR
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Assessment of therapist adherence (how closely did the therapist follow the manual guidelines, what interventions were actually delivered to the participant) and competence (how skillfully did the therapist deliver the treatment) in clinical trials of behavioral treatments based on session tapes is generally done at two separate times, by two different types of raters, and for two highly different purposes:
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Clinic Related Surveys

Addiction Severity Index Lite

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ASI
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The Addiction Severity Index - Lite version (ASI-Lite) is a shortened version of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI). The ASI is a semi-structured instrument used in face-to-face interviews conducted by clinicians, researchers or trained technicians. The ASI covers the following areas: medical, employment/support, drug and alcohol use, legal, family/social, and psychiatric. The ASI obtains lifetime information about problem behaviors, as well as problems within the previous 30 days. The ASI-Lite contains 22 fewer questions than the ASI, and omits items relating to severity ratings, and a family history grid. It can be administered in approximately 30 minutes.
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Substance Use
Subcategory
Drugs

Addiction Research Center Inventory

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Abbreviation
ARCI
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The ARCI is a standardized questionnaire used for assessing subjective effects of psychoactive drugs that was developed in the early 1960s at the National Institute of Mental Health Addiction Research Center. Using the "private language of users," the ARCI was developed to address the problem of the discrepancy of observer/user terminology by constructing the items from empirically validated, solicited responses of former addicts under the influence of various drugs. This self-report inventory was developed from the use of "sentence completion" and other association techniques on male subjects under drug and no-drug conditions. In addition to demonstrated "drug-sensitive" questions, the final form of the inventory (550 "true-false" items) also contains items which were thought to delineate to some extent schizoid and "psychopathic" characteristics. Initial use indicated that the inventory was effective in differentiating various subjective effects of drugs and in discriminating some similarities and differences of naturally occurring and experimentally induced behavioral abnormalities. A 49-item short form has also been developed.
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Substance Use
Subcategory
Drugs

Addiction Recovery Scale

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Abbreviation
ARS
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This scale is a 40-item measure that was used in the NIDA Cocaine/Psychotherapy Study to evaluate mediators of outcome in drug counseling. Items are based on the 12-step approach to recovery ("I know that recovery from addiction is a lifelong process," "When I experience craving, I go to a 12- step meeting," "I haven't gotten around to getting a sponsor," "I rely on my higher power to help me stay clean." The internal consistency reliability (Cronbach's alpha) of the total of the 40-items was found to be 0.82 using baseline data from the main clinical trial in the Cocaine/Psychotherapy Study.
Category
Substance Use

Abuse Experiences Questionnaire

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Abbreviation
AEQ
Description
This assessment includes physical, sexual and emotional abuse items. In each domain the participant is asked to report: lifetime occurrence (YES/NO); lifetime frequency (4-point scale from once to regularly); need for medical treatment (YES/NO); use of medical treatment (YES/NO); length of time since last occurrence; occurrence with main partner (YES/NO); occurrence with other than main partner (YES/NO); and past 3 month frequency (on a 1 – 6 scale of daily to no occurrence). Participants are also asked age of first sexual abuse and description of perpetrator (e.g. different family members, strangers, etc.). It has been shown that abuse is positively associated with sexual risk behavior.
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Interpersonal Relationships/Culture
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