A comprehensive review of the psychometric properties of the Drug Abuse Screening Test

Abstract This article reviews the reliability and the validity of the (10-, 20-, and 28-item) Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST). The reliability and the validity of the adolescent version of the DAST are also reviewed. An extensive literature review was conducted using the Medline and Psychinfo datab...

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Published in:Journal of substance abuse treatment 2007-03, Vol.32 (2), p.189-198
Main Authors: Yudko, Errol, Ph.D, Lozhkina, Olga, B.A, Fouts, Adriana, B.A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addictive behaviors
Adolescent
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Alcoholism - diagnosis
Alcoholism - epidemiology
Assessment
Biological and medical sciences
Comorbidity
Desintoxication. Drug withdrawal
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Drug testing
Drug use
Factor analysis
Female
Humans
Male
Mass Screening - statistics & numerical data
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometric properties
Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Reliability
Reproducibility of Results
Screening
Substance-Related Disorders - diagnosis
Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Treatments
Validity
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Summary:Abstract This article reviews the reliability and the validity of the (10-, 20-, and 28-item) Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST). The reliability and the validity of the adolescent version of the DAST are also reviewed. An extensive literature review was conducted using the Medline and Psychinfo databases from the years 1982 to 2005. All articles that addressed the reliability and the validity of the DAST were examined. Publications in which the DAST was used as a screening tool but had no data on its psychometric properties were not included. Descriptive information about each version of the test, as well as discussion of the empirical literature that has explored measures of the reliability and the validity of the DAST, has been included. The DAST tended to have moderate to high levels of test–retest, interitem, and item–total reliabilities. The DAST also tended to have moderate to high levels of validity, sensitivity, and specificity. In general, all versions of the DAST yield satisfactory measures of reliability and validity for use as clinical or research tools. Furthermore, these tests are easy to administer and have been used in a variety of populations.
ISSN:0740-5472
1873-6483
DOI:10.1016/j.jsat.2006.08.002