Adaptation of and Protocol for the Validation of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in the Russian Federation for Use in Primary Healthcare.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Rehm, Jürgen; Neufeld, Maria; Yurasova, Elena; Bunova, Anna; Gil, Artyom; Gornyi, Boris; Breda, João; Bryun, Evgeniy; Drapkina, Oxana; Fadeeva, Eugenia; Kalinina, Anna; Khaltourina, Daria; Klimenko, Tatiana; Kontsevaya, Anna; Koshkina, Evgenia; Martynova, Natalya; Nadezhdin, Alexey; Soshkina, Kristina; Tetenova, Elena; Vujnovic, Melita
- Source
- Alcohol & Alcoholism. Nov2020, Vol. 55 Issue 6, p624-630. 7p.
- Subject
- *ALCOHOL drinking
*INTERVIEWING
*MEDICAL screening
*PRIMARY health care
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*PILOT projects
*RESEARCH methodology evaluation
*ALCOHOL-induced disorders
- Language
- ISSN
- 0735-0414
Aims To adapt and validate the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) for use in the Russian Federation and countries with Russian-speaking populations by: 1) Operationalizing alcohol use patterns to allow for the best identification of hazardous use patterns in the Russian context. 2) Determining the best cut-off values for brief advice/interventions in primary healthcare settings. 3) Determining the best cut-off values for potential alcohol use disorders. Methods Systematic review of past use and validation of the Russian-language AUDIT. Interviews to be conducted with experts to identify problems encountered in the use of existing Russian-language AUDIT versions. A pilot study using a revised translation of the Russian-language AUDIT that incorporates country-specific drinking patterns in the Russian Federation. Results and Conclusions The systematic review identified over 60 different Russian-language AUDIT versions without systematic validation studies. The main difficulties encountered with the use of the AUDIT in the Russian Federation were related to the lack of: a concept and definition for a standard drink; low-risk drinking guidelines/thresholds and inclusion of the specific drinking pattern of episodic heavy drinking. A revised version of the Russian-language AUDIT was created based on the pilot studies, and was validated in primary healthcare facilities in all regions in 2019/2020. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]