Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test.
MAST
- What it measures
- Lifetime alcohol-use problems and consequences; broad alcohol-dependence screen
- Length and format
- 25 items. Yes/No, differentially weighted; summed; >=5 (weighted) indicates probable alcoholism (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Several languages incl. ES, FR, PT, JA
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Selzer, M. L. (1971). The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test: The quest for a new diagnostic instrument. American Journal of Psychiatry, 127(12), 1653-1658.
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