McCambridge Jim, Thomas Bonnita A
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2009 Jan;28(1):18-24. doi: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2008.00010.x.
The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is under-studied among young drinkers, as are the contributions of individual items to total AUDIT scores, and online performance of the existing briefer versions of this instrument.
This study examined individual items of the AUDIT, and various combinations, including the existing briefer versions, in relation to total AUDIT scores in a Web-based study of young drinkers. A total of 167 young people aged 16-24 years old who had consumed any alcohol within the previous 7 days were recruited by both offline and online methods.
Considered individually, items 3, 4, 5 and 8 were predictive of the majority of the variance in total AUDIT scores in this Web-based study. Existing briefer versions of the AUDIT do not better predict total scores than possible alternative combinations of items, for which acceptable levels of sensitivity and specificity for screening have been demonstrated.
Short forms of the AUDIT, particularly those based only on consumption questions, require further validation study in online applications with young people.
酒精使用障碍识别测试（AUDIT）在年轻饮酒者中的研究较少，该测试各项目对AUDIT总分的贡献以及该测试现有简短版本的在线表现也是如此。
在一项针对年轻饮酒者的网络研究中，本研究考察了AUDIT的各个项目以及包括现有简短版本在内的各种组合与AUDIT总分的关系。通过线下和线上方法共招募了167名年龄在16至24岁之间、在过去7天内饮用过任何酒精饮料的年轻人。
在这项网络研究中，单独来看，第3、4、5和8项可预测AUDIT总分的大部分方差。AUDIT现有的简短版本在预测总分方面并不比其他可能的项目组合更好，而这些组合已被证明具有可接受的筛查敏感性和特异性水平。
AUDIT的简短形式，尤其是那些仅基于饮酒问题的形式，需要在针对年轻人的在线应用中进行进一步的验证研究。
