CUGE: a screening instrument for alcohol abuse and dependence in students.
Alcohol Alcohol
; 39(5): 439-44, 2004.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
The prevalence of alcohol abuse on college campuses ranges from 7 to 17%. Frequent heavy drinkers place themselves and others at risk for a variety of adverse consequences and frequently remain undetected. Brief individual interventions result in a significant reduction on the number of drinks. Therefore, detection of students at risk is useful and desirable. The CUGE has been elsewhere described as a promising screening device for problem drinking in students. In order to determine the diagnostic value of this new questionnaire, we set up a validation study in a new and independent population of freshmen.METHODS:
A cross-sectional diagnostic study. Participants were college freshmen of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. All students received a questionnaire, containing the CUGE, being the test of interest, and the CIDI as the reference test.RESULTS:
The CUGE combines a very high sensitivity of 91% with a reasonable specificity of 76.3% in this validation group.CONCLUSIONS:
The CUGE is an excellent screening device in this population of students. In addition, it is a short questionnaire with only yes or no questions. This makes the CUGE easily applicable as a part of broad routine questionnaires.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Students
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Mass Screening
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Alcoholism
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Screening_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Alcohol Alcohol
Year:
2004
Document type:
Article
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