An Empirical Study of the Cut-Off Point for the Iranian Version of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)

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NOORBAKHSH SIMASADAT; SHAMS JAMAL; LOTFI LELAHLOO REZA; WENNBERG PETER; KALLMEN HAKAN

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Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology Year:2018 | Volume:7 | Issue:3 Page(s): 75-78

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An Empirical Study of the Cut-Off Point for the Iranian Version of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)

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Alcohol Use Disorder

Alcohol Use Disorders

Identification Test

(AUDIT) Cut-Off Point

Iranian Version

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Background: AUDIT is constructed to be able to identify hazardous drinking and less severe alcohol-related problems. The original AUDIT was shown to have a cut-off score of 8 and above for identifying hazardous or harmful alcohol consumption. The aim of this study was to establish the optimal cut-off point of the Persian version of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in psychiatric out-patients. Methods: Participants were a sample of consecutive patients at Imam Hossein Hospital (Tehran/Iran). They consisted of 99 patients, 49 of them diagnosed with alcohol dependency and 50 patients randomly selected from a sample of patients using alcohol but with other primary diagnoses. All statistics including means and standard deviations as well as medians and interquartile range were calculated in SPSS 24 software environment. Results: A Receiver Operating Curve analysis showed that by using a 20-point cut-off, the AUDIT had an optimal combination of sensitivity (. 92) and specificity (. 74). The rate of discrimination was. 88. Conclusions: Given the high sensitivity and acceptable specificity of the AUDIT, the test can be used as an effective instrument for identification of Alcohol Use Disorders in the Persian psychiatric out-patient population. Furthermore, the receiver operating curve found in this study resembles the one found in previous studies despite the differences in alcohol cultures between Iran and countries with higher alcohol consumption.

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NOORBAKHSH, SIMASADAT, SHAMS, JAMAL, LOTFI LELAHLOO, REZA, WENNBERG, PETER, & KALLMEN, HAKAN. (2018). An Empirical Study of the Cut-Off Point for the Iranian Version of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY (APJMT), 7(3), 75-78. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/336435/en

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NOORBAKHSH SIMASADAT, SHAMS JAMAL, LOTFI LELAHLOO REZA, WENNBERG PETER, KALLMEN HAKAN. An Empirical Study of the Cut-Off Point for the Iranian Version of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY (APJMT)[Internet]. 2018;7(3):75-78. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/336435/en

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SIMASADAT NOORBAKHSH, JAMAL SHAMS, REZA LOTFI LELAHLOO, PETER WENNBERG, and HAKAN KALLMEN, “An Empirical Study of the Cut-Off Point for the Iranian Version of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT),” ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY (APJMT), vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 75–78, 2018, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/336435/en

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