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Scale of Risk Profile of Drug Consumption
Dimension: Risk factors start consumption
Area
Personal
Specificity
Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
Year
2002
Author
Conrod & Woicik
Identification and Classification
- Instrument
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Scale of Risk Profile of Drug Consumption
- Acronym
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EPRCD
- Area
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Personal
- Dimension
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Risk factors start consumption
- Specificity
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Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
- Objective
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Evaluate the personality profile of substance use risk
- Factors it measures
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- Impulsiveness
- Sensitivity to anxiety
- Despair
- Search for sensations
- Year
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2002
- Author
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Conrod & Woicik
- Author Contact Data
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Woicik, Patricia
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
E-mail: pwoicik@bnl.gov
- Availability
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Commercial use
- Link
Versions
Year
2014
Validation Country
Brazil
Author
Canfield, Gilvarry, & Koller
Author Contact Data
Canfield, Martha
Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, Whitelands College London, Holybourne Avenue, London SW15 4JD, UK.
E-mail: martha.canfield@roehampton.ac.uk
References
Canfield, M., Gilvarry, C., & Koller, S. H. (2014). Psychometric properties of the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale. Brazilian version. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 13, 204-214.
Year
2014
Validation Country
Mexico
Author
Robles-García, Fresán, Castellanos-Ryan, Conrod, Gómez, de Quevedo y Domínguez, Rafful, Real, Vásquez, & Medina-Mora
Author Contact Data
Fresán, Ana
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñíz, Calz. México-Xochimilco 101, Mexico City 14370, Mexico.
E-mail: fresan@imp.edu.mx
References
Robles-García, R., Fresán, A., Castellanos-Ryan, N., Conrod, P., Gómez, D., de Quevedo y Domínguez, M. E. G., Rafful, C., Real, T., Vásquez, L., & Medina-Mora, M. E. (2014). Spanish version of the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale: Factor structure, reliability, and validity in Mexican adolescents. Psychiatry Research, 220, 1113-1117.
Year
2018
Validation Country
Spain
Author
Fernández-Calderón, Díaz-Batanero, Rojas-Tejada, Castellanos-Ryan, & Lozano-Rojas
Author Contact Data
Fernández-Calderón, Fermín
Departamento de Psicología Clínica y Experimental, Universidad de Huelva. Oficina PB 2-28. Campus de El Carmen. Avenida de las Fuerzas Armadas, s/n. 21071, Huelva (España)
Email: fermin.fernandez@dpces.uhu.es
References
Fernández-Calderón, F., Díaz-Batanero, C., Rojas-Tejada, A. J., Castellanos-Ryan, N., & Lozano-Rojas, O (2018). Adaptación a la población española de la Escala de Perfil de Riesgo de Consumo de Drogas (EPRCD) y estudio de sus propiedades psicométricas. Adicciones, (Avance on-line).
Description
- Abstract
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SURPS assesses four key personality factors through 23 items associated with drug use, these are hopelessness, impulsivity, search for sensations and sensitivity to anxiety, for which 23 items are used on a Likert scale.
- Psychometric characteristics
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In the Spanish validation (Fernández-Calderon, et al., 2018) the internal consistency of the four subscales ranged between .652 and .806. As well as, the reliability coefficients by the two halves procedure varied between .686 and .829. The test-retest estimate ranged between .733 and .868
- No. of items
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The questionnaire consists of 23 items on a Likert-type scale
- Duration
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10 min
- Way of administration
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- Individual and collective
- Paper
- Way of qualification
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The scale includes four forms of response ranging from strongly disagreeing (0) to strongly agreeing (3), being able to obtain a minimum score of 0 and a maximum score of 69
- Application context
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Clinic / School
- Population
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Applicable from school age
- References
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Conrod, P., & Woicik, P. (2002). Validation of a four-factor model of personality risk for substance abuse and examination of a brief instrument for assessing personality risk. Addiction Biology, 7, 329-346.