Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)

Full name of scale

Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (Babor, Biddle-Higgins, Saunders, & Monteiro, 2001)

Languages

English & French (Canada) available; and over 40 other languages

French version reference

Gache, P., Michaud, P., Landry, U., Accietto, C., Arfaoui, S., Wenger, O., & Daeppen, J. B. (2005). The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) as a screening tool for excessive drinking in primary care: reliability and validity of a French version. Alcoholism: Clinical and experimental research, 29(11), 2001-2007.

Rater

PROM (Patient self-report)

Utility

To provide a framework for intervention to help with unhealthy alcohol use reduce/cease alcohol consumption and thereby avoid the harmful consequences

Clinical use: to help identify alcohol dependence & specific consequences of harmful drinking

AUDIT is a 10 item-questionnaire that covers 3 key domains:

1. alcohol intake;
2. potential dependence on alcohol, and;
3. experience of alcohol-related harm.

AUDIT has extremely strong credentials as an international instrument as no one country/culture dominated the database for the development of the AUDIT

Time to complete

No information found

Cost/license

Open Access (free)