BACKGROUND This study evaluated the utility of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test Alcohol Consumption Questions (AUDIT-C) in screening at-risk drinking and alcohol use disorders among Korean college students. METHODS For the 387 students who visited Chungnam National University student health center, drinking state and alcohol use disorders were assessed through diagnostic intervie...

BACKGROUND The AUDIT-C is an extensively validated screen for unhealthy alcohol use (i.e. drinking above recommended limits or alcohol use disorder), which consists of three questions about alcohol consumption. AUDIT-C scores ≥4 points for men and ≥3 for women are considered positive screens based on US validation studies that compared the AUDIT-C to "gold standard" measures of unhealthy alcoho...

BACKGROUND Antenatal care in Sweden involves a visit in pregnancy week 6-7 for counseling about lifestyle issues, including alcohol. The aim of this study was to investigate alcohol consumption among partners of pregnant women, their motives for changing drinking patterns when becoming a parent and their perceptions of the midwife's counseling about alcohol. METHOD The study was conducted at ...

In this paper, we propose design guidelines of comprehensive pictorial symbols for communication support [1]. We conducted the questionnaire survey for evaluating understandability of pictorial symbols reproduced by JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) committee. Then, we examined features of pictorial symbols whose percentage of questions answered correctly was high. According to these features,...

Survey tools are widely used within Child Computer Interaction however the validity and reliability of children’s responses are often brought into question. This paper reports on a study on the effects of asking the same questions to the same children over a period of a week to ascertain the validity of children’s responses when completing a single questionnaire. The results showed that over 50...

this research is a analytical- descriptive study. the aim of this study is determination attitude of health centers authorities in tehran about roles and activities of community health nurse. the research instrument was a questionnaire with 33 questions that was made by the researcher. the data was collected through visit to research units in health centers. the result of research showed that t...

The Fagerström Tolerance Questionnaire (TQ) is often used in both research and treatment contexts to evaluate nicotine tolerance and physiological dependence in cigarette smokers. Recently, however, questions about its validity and its usefulness in comparison to other easily collected measures have been raised. In the present study, 100 male subjects reporting for experimental sessions (Sample...