[Standardized scale instruments for evaluating the relational meanings of motivation, pathogenesis and care in alcoholism]

Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi. 1989 Jul-Sep;93(3):485-9.
[Article in Romanian]

Abstract

The authors give synthesis of five scale methods for alcoholism (Alcoholism Severity Scale, Mac Andrew Scale, Bell Alcoholism Scale of Adjustment, Manson Evaluation and Iowa Alcoholic Intake Schedule), four scale means of the type of Psychological tests (Alcadd Test, Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test, Mortimer-Filkins Test and Essential Reactive Alcoholism Dimension) and three procedures of the type of personality inventory and questionnaire (Drinking Behaviour Interview, Alcoholism Assessment Interview and Alcoholism Use Questionnaire) tools that were at the basis of the construction of a "Scale of Estimating Medical Implications in Alcoholism" conceived experimented and validated in the psychiatric clinic of Iaşi.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Alcoholism / diagnosis*
  • Alcoholism / etiology
  • Alcoholism / psychology
  • Alcoholism / therapy
  • Humans
  • Motivation*
  • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / methods
  • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / standards*