Pandey Susmita
Public Health Research Department, Sakshyam Research Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal.
BJPsych Int. 2025 May;22(2):52-54. doi: 10.1192/bji.2024.44. Epub 2025 Jan 30.
The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is a ten-item standardised questionnaire to assess an individual's vulnerability to alcohol use disorders. Three of these ten questions are related to alcohol consumption. Nepal has a distinct alcohol culture, where alcohol use is socially and religiously acceptable in some caste/ethnic groups and is prohibited in others, thereby influencing the scores of AUDIT questions related to all three conceptual domains. Identifying and endorsing subsets of AUDIT questions relevant to different ethnic groups could be the way forward for effective screening of alcohol use disorders in Nepal.
酒精使用障碍识别测试(AUDIT)是一份包含十个条目的标准化问卷,用于评估个体患酒精使用障碍的易感性。这十个问题中有三个与饮酒量有关。尼泊尔有着独特的酒精文化,在一些种姓/族群中,饮酒在社会和宗教层面是可接受的,而在其他族群中则被禁止,这进而影响了AUDIT中与所有三个概念领域相关问题的得分。识别并认可与不同族群相关的AUDIT问题子集,可能是在尼泊尔有效筛查酒精使用障碍的前进方向。