Validation Studies

Research papers on the development and validation of the AUDIT, guidelines for use, AUDIT derivatives and comparisons with other screening tools (are available). 

These are papers which describe the development and validation of the AUDIT, guidelines for its use, its validation in different populations and comparisons with other screening instruments.

Importantly, this collection of publications does not contain papers where the AUDIT is used as a tool to assess prevalence or to examine the association of alcohol use with mental or physical disorders or overall morbidity or mortality. It also does not include studies which primarily assess the effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions. More than a thousand papers in these categories exist but are outside the scope of this bibliographic collection.