Vail-Smith K, Knight S M, Durham T W
Department of Health Education, East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
J Am Coll Health. 1996 Jan;44(4):151-6. doi: 10.1080/07448481.1996.9937522.
The Children of Alcoholics Short Screening Instrument (CASSI), a four-item Likert-type scale, was developed to fulfill the need for a screening instrument to identify children of alcoholics (COAs) in college student populations. A sample of 369 college students was surveyed to assess the psychometric properties of the CASSI; the scale had a Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of .94 and a 4-week test-retest reliability of .81. The CASSI correlated significantly with the Children of Alcoholics Screening Test (CAST), which supported its concurrent validity. The CASSI appears to be a promising research tool for identifying COAs, particularly among college student populations.
