Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test - Consumption.

AUDIT-C

What it measures

Hazardous drinking based on the three AUDIT consumption items (frequency, typical quantity, frequency of heavy episodes)

Length and format

3 items. 5-point (0-4); summed 0-12; >=4 (men) / >=3 (women) commonly flag hazardous drinking (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Inherits the AUDIT multi-language set (~40+ languages)

Normative data

Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

Bush, K., Kivlahan, D. R., McDonell, M. B., Fihn, S. D., & Bradley, K. A. (1998). The AUDIT alcohol consumption questions (AUDIT-C). Archives of Internal Medicine, 158(16), 1789-1795.