Validity Verification of a Korean Version of Recovery Scale(Client Assessment Summary) for Alcoholics

Abstract

This study investigates the validity of a Korean version of the Client Assessment Summary (CAS), which is a tool used to assess the recovery of alcoholics. We investigated the Korean CAS's suitability for use in assessing the scale of recovery scale of general alcoholics in Korea. In this study, we analyzed the data of 205 abstaining alcoholics in order to determine the validity of the Korean CAS. We undertook relationship analyses of CAS contents, reliability, and composition validity through factor analysis. In addition, we assessed ARS, abstinence period, abstinence self-efficacy, illness insight, and motivation change variables. The factor analysis results, performed after verification of content suitability by assessing 12 questions and 4 factors, confirmed the tool's composition validity, with the results showing relatively high values (R2 = 76.26%, communality ≥ 0.6, and KMO = 0.92). Moreover, internal consistency was acceptable (Cronbach's alpha = 0.92), and the correlations among ARS, abstinence self-efficacy, illness insight, and motivation change variables confirmed the validity of the Korean CAS. The proposed Korean CAS is expected to be useful when academically and clinically assessing the recovery of alcoholics; thereby, eventually contributing to successful recoveries from alcoholism.

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“…Criterion validity of the CAS was good with Alcohol Recovery Scale (r = .793, p < .05; Rhee & Kim, 2016). In the past, the CAS was used only for residents of the TC, but it reported that the CAS is useful to evaluate the recovery of people with AUD in the community (S. H. Lee et al, 2012;Rhee & Kim, 2016). The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the original scale was .87 (Kressel et al, 2000), and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of CAS was reported to be .86 in the Korean TC program (Cha & Chun, 2009).…”

“…Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the original scale was .87. Criterion validity of the CAS was good with Alcohol Recovery Scale (r = .793, p < .05; Rhee & Kim, 2016). In the past, the CAS was used only for residents of the TC, but it reported that the CAS is useful to evaluate the recovery of people with AUD in the community (S. H. Lee et al, 2012;Rhee & Kim, 2016).…”