Alcohol Craving Questionnaire-Revised Short Form

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Craving and abstinence

Characteristics of use

Alcohol

Helps to assess craving in alcoholic patients. It is a measure of state that provides an acute craving index.

Compulsiveness (loss of control), expectation (positive reinforcement of use), purpose (intention to drink alcohol) and emotionality.

1995

SINGLETON AND COLS.

"Questionnaires and manual available in hardcopy or as MS Word or text E-mail attachment from: Edward G. Singleton, Ph.D. Consulting Psychologist 5 Elderberry Court Baltimore, MD 21228-1008 Phone: 410-744-0963 Fax: 410-744-4604 E-mail: e1d2g3s4@comcast.net "

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1995.tb01475.x/abstract;jsessionid=D49E7171014170C93BCC980A5DD793AA.f04t02?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

This is a short version of the Alcohol Craving Questionnaire of 47 items (ACQ-NOW). Each item has a score of 7 points with extremes " totally agreemee" and "totally disagree. Each section is related to 4 factors: compulsiveness loss of control), expectation (positive reinforcement of use), purpose (intention to drink alcohol) and emotionality.

It has adequate convergent and divergent validity and internal consistency and correlation with the 47-item version.

47

Self-administered

Scale that gives a score. The higher the score the higher the level of Craving

Patients undergoing treatment for alcohol use problems

Adult population with alcohol use disorders

Singleton, E.G., Tiffany, S.T. & Henningfield JE. Alcohol Craving Questionnaire (ACQ-NOW): Background, Scoring, and Administration (Manual). Baltimore: Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse; 2000.