CRAFFT Screening Test.
CRAFFT
- What it measures
- Adolescent alcohol and other drug use risk; mnemonic Car, Relax, Alone, Forget, Friends, Trouble (the 6 scored questions)
- Length and format
- 6 scored (within a longer frequency-screen + CRAFFT questions structure). Yes/No (1/0) for the 6 items; summed 0-6; >=2 indicates high risk for a substance-use disorder (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages incl. ES, FR, PT, ZH, AR; broad international adolescent use
- 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
- Knight, J. R., Sherritt, L., Shrier, L. A., Harris, S. K., & Chang, G. (2002). Validity of the CRAFFT substance abuse screening test among adolescent clinic patients. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 156(6), 607-614.
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