Nancy Wolff|Jingping Shi
Screening for Substance Use Disorder Among Incarcerated Men with the Alcohol, Smoking, Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST): A Comparative Analysis of Computer-Administered and Interviewer-Administered Modalities
Behavioral Health Services|Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey|Behavioral Health Services|Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
substance use disorders overrepresented incarcerated male populations costeffective screening alcohol substance use problems among incarcerated populations necessary first step forward intervention alcohol smoking substance involvement screening test assist holds promise strong psychometric properties requires minimal training easy score available public domain complicated skip patterns cannot selfadministered study tests feasibility reliability validity using computeradministered selfinterviewing casi versus intervieweradministered interviewing iai screen substance use problems among incarcerated men using assist 2 2 factorial design used randomly assign 396 incarcerated men screening modality findings indicate computer screening feasible compared iai casi produced equally reliable screening information substance use symptom severity testretest intraclass correlations assist total substancespecific scores ranging 07 09 assist substancespecific scores substance abuse disorder diagnosis based structured clinical interview scid significantly correlated iai casi findings indicate data substance use symptom severity using assist reliably validly obtained casi technology increasing efficiency incarcerated populations screened substance use problems risk identified treatment