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Drug Abuse Screening Test
Dimension: Risk factors start consumption
Area
Personal
Specificity
Specific: Other illegal drugs
Year
1982
Author
Skinner
Identification and Classification
- Instrument
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Drug Abuse Screening Test
- Acronym
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DAST-10
- Area
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Personal
- Dimension
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Risk factors start consumption
- Specificity
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Specific: Other illegal drugs
- Objective
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Assess the use of psychoactive substances
- Factors it measures
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Substance use (cannabis, tranquilizers, barbiturates, cocaine, stimulants, hallucinogens or narcotics)
- Year
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1982
- Author
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Skinner
- Author Contact Data
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Skinner, Harvey
Faculty of Health, York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Teléfono: (416) 736-5340
E-mail: harvey.skinner@utoronto.ca
Emérito
- Availability
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Free
- Link
Versions
Year
1986
Validation Country
Brazil
Author
Jorge, & Mansur
Author Contact Data
Jorge, Miguel Roberto
Escola Paulista de Medicina, Dep Psiquiatria, Sao Paulo. Brasil
E-mail: migueljorge@psiquiatria.epm.br
References
Jorge, M. R., & Mansur, J. (1986). Questionários padronizados para Avaliação do grau de Severidade da Síndrome de Dependência do Álcool. Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria, 35, 287-292.
Year
2010
Validation Country
Spain
Author
Pérez, García, Vicente, Oliveras, & Lahoz
Author Contact Data
Pérez, Bartolomé
Hospital Universitario de San Juan. Servicio de Psiquiatría - Unidad de Alcohología. Ctra. Alicante-Valencia, s/n. 03550 – San Juan (Alicante)
E-mail: bperezgalvez@ono.com
References
Pérez, B., García, L., Vicente, M. P., Oliveras, M. A., & Lahoz, M. (2010). Validación española del Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-10). Health and Addictions, 10, 35-50.
Description
- Abstract
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DAST-10 is an instrument to assess the use of of illegal substances (cannabis, tranquilizers, barbiturates, cocaine, stimulants, hallucinogens or narcotics) in young and adult population. To do this, 10 items of dichotomous response are used in this version. Through its psychometric conditions corroborates its usefulness both in the clinical field and in research
- Psychometric characteristics
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It has a high internal consistency (α = .89). The exploratory factor analysis in its Spanish version extracted two components that explained 62.18% of the variance. The cut-off points (≥ 3) showed a high degree of agreement with the diagnostic criteria DSM-IV TR (κDAST-10 = .91), correctly classifying more than 90% of the subjects evaluated
- No. of items
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Contains 10 items with dichotomous response mode (yes / no)
- Duration
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5 min
- Way of administration
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- Individual and collective
- Paper
- Way of qualification
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Each "yes" is punctuated with 1 point and each "no" with 0 points, except for item 3, where if you answered "no" it is assigned 1 point. From the 3 points it is considered that there is a moderate level of addiction
- Application context
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Clinic
- Population
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Young, adults
- References
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Skinner, H. A. (1982). The Drug Abuse Screening Test. Addictive Behaviour, 7, 363-371.