Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test.
ASSIST
- What it measures
- Risk associated with use of tobacco, alcohol and 8 illicit/prescription drug classes; per-substance involvement scores and risk bands
- Length and format
- 8 questions asked per substance across all classes (~tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines, inhalants, sedatives, hallucinogens, opioids, other). Frequency-weighted items; per-substance Specific Substance Involvement Score with low/moderate/high risk bands (clinician-rated/interview)
- Language versions
- Many languages via WHO (ES, FR, PT, ZH, AR, RU, etc.)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- WHO ASSIST Working Group (2002). The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST): Development, reliability and feasibility. Addiction, 97(9), 1183-1194.
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