Yerima Mukhtar Mohammed, Onifade Peter Olutunde, Wakawa Ibrahim Abdu, Pindar Sadique Kwajaffa, Jidda Mohammed Said, Musami Umar Baba, Ali Fatima Abba
Clinical Wing, 461 Nigerian Air Force Hospital, Nigerian Air Force Base, Kaduna, Nigeria.
Drug Addiction Treatment Education and Research (DATER) Unit, Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Nigeria.
Niger Med J. 2020 Mar-Apr;61(2):73-77. doi: 10.4103/nmj.NMJ_59_19. Epub 2020 May 7.
Substance use disorders present with multiple drug-related problems that need to be evaluated with a view to planning and administering holistic interventions that could potentially improve addiction treatment outcomes. Many valid instruments are available for assessing the problems that occur in addiction but most of them require some training and they take a lot of time to administer. This study validates a shorter self-administered version of the Addiction severity Index (ASI) against the Clinician-administered ASI with a view to cutting the time needed to administer the instrument.
The study recruited 142 patients in a residential treatment center. Correlation coefficient and -test were used to assess for the convergence of the two version.
The correlation coefficients ranged from 0.52 to 0.97 for the different domain of the ASI with higher endorsement of problems in the self-administered than clinician administered version in most domains.
The self-administered ASI is a valid alternative to the clinician-administered ASI and it saves valuable time especially in resource-constrained settings.
物质使用障碍存在多种与药物相关的问题,需要进行评估,以便规划和实施全面干预措施,从而有可能改善成瘾治疗效果。有许多有效的工具可用于评估成瘾中出现的问题,但其中大多数需要一些培训,而且实施起来需要花费大量时间。本研究对成瘾严重程度指数(ASI)的一个较短的自我施测版本与临床医生施测的ASI进行了验证,以期缩短实施该工具所需的时间。
该研究在一家住院治疗中心招募了142名患者。使用相关系数和t检验来评估两个版本的一致性。
ASI不同领域的相关系数在0.52至0.97之间,在大多数领域中,自我施测版本对问题的认可程度高于临床医生施测版本。
自我施测的ASI是临床医生施测的ASI的有效替代方案,它节省了宝贵的时间,尤其是在资源有限的环境中。