Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)
The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) (Saunders et al., 1993) is a 10-item scale designed to measure hazardous or harmful alcohol consumption, which encompasses alcohol consumption, drinking behaviour (dependence), and alcohol-related problems. Different versions of the scale have been created which include a subset of the original 10 items.
Reference
Saunders, J. B., Aasland, O. G., Babor, T. F., De La Fuente, J. R., & Grant, M. (1993). Development of the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption-II. Addiction, 88(6), 791-804. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1993.tb02093.x
List of questions
| Question number | Question | Original 10-item version | 5-item version | 3-item version (1) | 3-item version (2) | 3-item version (3) | 2-item version (1) | 2-item version (2) | 2-item version (3) | COVID-19 7-item version | COVID-19 5-item version | COVID-19 4-item version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How often do you have a drink containing alcohol? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓✓ | ✓ | ✓✓ | ✓ | ✓✓ | ✓✓ | ✓✓ |
| 2 | How many drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day when you are drinking? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓✓ | ✓✓ | ✓✓ | |||
| 3 | How often have you had six or more drinks on one occasion? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| 4 | How often during the last year have you found that you were not able to stop drinking once you had started? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| 5 | How often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected from you because of your drinking? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
| 6 | How often during the last year have you needed a first drink in the morning to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session? | ✓ | ||||||||||
| 7 | How often during the last year have you had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking? | ✓ | ||||||||||
| 8 | How often during the last year have you been unable to remember what happened the night before because you had been drinking? | ✓ | ||||||||||
| 9 | Have you or someone else been injured as a result of your drinking? | ✓ | ||||||||||
| 10 | Has a relative or friend, or a doctor or other health worker been concerned about your drinking or suggested you cut down? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Note: two ticks (✓✓) next to a question indicates that the question was asked twice, each with a different time stamp.