Alcohol
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The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), a 10-question assessment tool, has been developed by the World Health Organization and can distinguish hazardous drinkers who are amenable to relatively simple advice in the form of a “brief intervention”, from harmful drinkers for whom referral to specialist services is appropriate.
The Fast Alcohol Screening Test (FAST) was developed from AUDIT as a shorter version to use in busy A&E and hospital environments to detect hazardous drinking.
If an individual has a score that suggests harmful drinking, the Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire (SADQ) is 20-item questionnaire designed by the World Health Organisation can be used to measure severity of dependence on alcohol.
If you are familiar with any of these tools, please join the discussion and let us know what you feel about them. If they are new to you, why not try them out and let us know how it goes?
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Templates:
- Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionaire (SADQ-C)
- Fast Alcohol Screening Tool (FAST)
- Alcohol screening tool (health and wellbeing)
- The WHO Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): Self-Report Version
Resources:
| Alcohol group, more information | web | |
| Argyll and Bute guidelines | web | |
| FAST Screening test manual | 80.9 KB | |
| Risk scale (alcohol) | file | 40.5 KB |
| SADQ | 12.7 KB | |
| Units of alcohol | doc | 54.0 KB |
| WHO AUDIT Manual | 172.0 KB | |
| WHO AUDIT Tool- units as graphic | 104.7 KB |
Discussion:
Just wondering – are the number of downloads/visits to the site being monitored and counted? I’m pointing more and more people this way!
The WHO AUDIT tool has now been added as a template.
And another…
After discussion with Hazel, I’ve added the alcohol section from the Health and Wellbeing screening tool.
As part of the process here is to take existing tools and improve them through informal peer review, it’s better that we don’t only post tools that have already been through the validation process.
So please take a look at this as it stands, and comment on it. We will shortly have the ability to post an overall ‘review’ of a template, which will let people get a quick impression on whether a template has problems with implemenation or evidence-base.
Your thoughts and all this would be much appreciated.
And that’s the FAST tool in now too.
(from the back row of a conference hall in Amsterdam :)
Sorry for a wee bug in the email alert- the templates are here: http://www.clintemplate.org/groups/9/
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site is provided by Glasgow Caledonian University for NHS Scotland 
Yes, I am keeping stats. This group and the continence one are the most visited- around 40 ‘unique’ visitors here over the last few weeks.
The site still isn’t widely publicised until we build the activity a bit more. There are discussions under way to have the templates here indexed in NHS Scotland’s eLibrary. I’m hoping that will happen over the next few months.