The Validity of the Brief Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (bMAST) as a Problem Drinking Severity Measure

Mechanism, assessment and management of pain in chronic pancreatitis: Recommendations of a multidisciplinary study group

“…It is necessary to choose an instrument that is considered to best evaluate the suspected abnormal behaviors (87, 88). Given the complexity of the assessment process, the working group members believe that referral to a pain specialist with skills in behavioral psychology is reasonable, particularly if aberrant pain behavior is suspected and response to therapy has been suboptimal.…”

Pancreatitis Quality of Life Instrument: A Psychometric Evaluation

“…Th is is a scale that was developed to identify items that are not obviously biased, but, that may refl ect social desirability, which if present could lead to a highly skewed instrument with fl oor and/or ceiling eff ects, making the instrument less useful ( 19 ). Items with high correlation to the Marlowe-Crowne social desirability scale would be removed.…”

“…Patients, who met the inclusion/exclusion criteria, were asked to complete the following forms: (1) a demographics form; (2) the 24-item quality of life questionnaire for chronic pancreatitis (PANQOLI); (3) the Marlowe-Crowne instrument ( 19 ), this instrument was chosen to exclude social desirability questions from the PANQOLI, as such questions would infl uence how a patient could answer them; (4) to evaluate the convergent validity of the instrument, each patient was asked to also complete two well-accepted quality of life instruments: a generic instrument-the Short Form 12-and one developed for pancreatic cancer-the European Organization Research Th erapy for Cancer (EORTC QLQ-C30/QLQ-PAN26) ( 10,11 ); and (5) to evaluate the discriminant validity of the instrument, each patient was asked to complete two, non-quality of life instruments: the Brief Michigan Alcohol Screening Test and the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) ( 20,21 ). Both the convergent validity and discriminant validity provide a crucial way to test the instrument's construct validity.…”

Validity of the Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale in a Heavy Drinking Population

“…Usual and maximum alcohol consumption per day over the past month was assessed prior to treatment by an experienced physician or senior clinical nurse, using semi-structured interview guided by a treatment manual (see also Connor et al (2007) for previous validation of this approach with the Alcohol Timeline Follow Back [Sobell and Sobell, 1996]). …”