The Validity and Reliability of Addiction Severity Index in Alcoholic Patients.
- Author:
Duk Ki LEE
1
;
Woo Suk JANG
;
Seok Gu SEOL
;
Suk Ja YOUN
;
Jin Seok CHO
;
Won Tan BYUN
Author Information
1. Department of Psychiatry, Yang-San Hospital, Kyung-Nam, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Alcohol dependence;
Validity;
Reliability;
Addiction severity index
- MeSH:
Alcoholics*;
Alcoholism;
Diagnosis;
Humans;
Reproducibility of Results*
- From:Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
1997;36(6):1033-1040
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of Korean version of Addiction Severity Index for the systematic diagnosis and evaluation of alcoholism. METHODS: The authors selected 65 alcoholic patients with the criteria of DSM-VI. RESULTS: The results were as follows: 1) The exception of the significant correlation between psychiatric and the family/social problem area, the 6 sections of ASI were mutually independent. 2) There was significant inter-rater reliability in all sections of ASI. 3) In medical, alcohol use, family/social and psychiatry section, the calculation of composite score showed reasonable level of item consistency. In all sections, there was significant correlation between composite scores and severity ratings of corresponding section. 4) The important items of each section were most highly correlated with their corresponding severity ratings except two sections. 5) In the multiple regression analysis, the amount of variance accounted far by the most important 4 items were 83% in medical section, 45% in employment/support,43% in alcohol use section, 55% in legal section,53% in family/social section and 84% in psychiatric section. 6) Severity rating of psychiatric section was significantly correlated with the scores of MMFI, MAST and SCL-90-R. CONCLUSION: The result suggests that Korean version of the ASI showed relatively reasonable reliability and validity and it can be used in treatment and study of alcoholic patients.
