Maudsley Addiction Profile

MAP

Interview

Case detection

Alcohol

The basic purpose of the MAP is to collect standardized information on basic aspects of the patient's behavior and problematic during the different phases of treatment (admission, treatment, completion and follow-up). The MAP has been explicitly designed as a tool for monitoring results and each item is designed to be repeated over time to evaluate the change.

Substance use, risk behaviors to health, physical symptoms, social / personal functionning

1996

Marsden et al

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http://www.adicciones.es/index.php/adicciones/article/view/392/392

The MAP is a semistructured clinical interview developed by Marsden et al, designed to be used as a tool for monitoring and follow-up of treatment outcomes in addiction. The self-administered MAP collects information about problems experienced by users of alcohol or drugs in four life-functioning areas: substance use, risky behaviors to health, physical or psychological health problems, life context and social functioning (social and family problems and criminal behavior).

Consists of 60 items and can be administered within about 15-20 minutes, either in a guided manner or self-administered.

60

The MAP has the following scales: Substance use, Health-risk behaviors, Physical symptoms, Social / personal functioning; these scales are valued with open questions, using substances and problems associated with use.

NI

It is applied in the clinical practice to the population of substance-users.

Adults

Marsden, J. Gossop, G. Stewart, D. Best, D. Farrell, M. Lehmann, P. Edwards, C. & Strang, J. (1998) The Maudsley Addiction Profile (MAP): A brief treatment instrument for Assessing outcome, Addiction 93 (12): 1857- 1867.