DUDIT_score v.1

How often do you use drugs other than alcohol?

Do you use more than one type of drug on the same occasion?

How many times do you take drugs on a typical day when you use drugs?

How often are you influenced heavily by drugs?

Over the past year, have you felt that your longing for drugs was so strong that you couldn't resisit it?

Has it happened, over the past year, that you have not been able to stop taking drugs once you started?

How often over the past year have you taken drugs and then neglected to do something you should have done

How often over the past year have you needed to take a drug the morning after heavy drug use the day before?

How often over the past year have you had guilt feelings or a bad conscience because you used drugs?

Have you or anyone else been hurt (mentally or physically) because you used drugs?

Has a relative or a friend, a doctor or a nurse, or anyone else, been worried about your drug use or said to you that you should stop using drugs?

Gender

Drug use disorders identification test (DUDIT) is a screening test for identifying individuals with drug-related problems, those in the risk zone, and those who clearly do not have drug-related problems. The test consists of 11 items or psychometric indicators which help assess drug-use patterns and various drug-related problems. The first 9 items are scored 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, while the 10th and 11th items (assessing \"harmful use\" and \"concern from others\" respectively) are scored 0, 2 or 4. Minimum total score = 0 (no drug-related problems) and maximum score = 44 (extremely dependent on multiple drugs).

Eneimi Allwell-Brown

models@cambiocds.com

To identify individuals with drug-related problems as well as their drug-use patterns using a set of 11 psychometric indicators. Identifies drug-related problems in settings where individuals who use drugs may be encountered.

To calulate the DUDIT score from responses to the 11 psychometric indicator questions. The first 9 questions are scored 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 while the 10th and 11th questions are scored 0, 2 or 4. Minimum DUDIT score = 0 (no drug-related problem) and maximum DUDIT score = 44 (extremely dependent on multiple drugs). A list of drugs is available in the references and includes recreational drugs as well as sedatives, painkillers or other pills (medicines) taken in excess number or frequency than prescribed by the physician, taken to feel good or get 'high', taken from a relative or friend, or bought from the 'black market' or stolen. If a male client shows a score of 6 or more points, he probably has drug-related problems – either substance abuse/harmful use or dependence. A woman with a score of 2 or more points probably has drug-related problems. If a client (both sexes) shows a score of 25 points or more, it is highly probable that he or she is dependent on one or more drugs.

Not to be used for alcohol-related problems - AUDIT (alcohol use disorders identification test) exists for that purpose.

Saunders JB, Aasland OG, Babor TF, De la Fuente JR, Grant M. Development of the alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT): WHO collaborative project on early detection of persons with harmful alcohol consumption‐II. Addiction. 1993 Jun 1;88(6):791-804. Berman AH, Bergman H, Palmstierna T, Schlyter F. DUDIT manual the drug use disorders identification test. London: Karolinska Institutet Department of Clinical Neuroscience. 2005. List of drugs: http://www.paihdelinkki.fi/sites/default/files/duditmanual.pdf

OBSERVATION.drug_use_disorders_id_test.v1, OBSERVATION.basic_demographic.v1, EVALUATION.drug_use_disorders_id_test.v1

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