PMID- 11730629
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20020221
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 0025-7753 (Print)
IS  - 0025-7753 (Linking)
VI  - 117
IP  - 18
DP  - 2001 Dec 1
TI  - [The ISCA (Systematic Interview of Alcohol Consumption), a new instrument to 
      detect risky drinking].
PG  - 685-9
AB  - BACKGROUND: The World Health Organisation Collaborative Project on Alcohol and 
      Primary Health Care has stressed the need to develop standardised screening tools 
      to enable early identification. The aim of this study was to develop a new 
      systematic tool to register alcohol consumption and to validate its usefulness in 
      order to detect risky drinking in primary health care settings. SUBJECTS AND 
      METHOD: The Systematic Interview of Alcohol Consumption (ISCA) was administered 
      together with the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), which was 
      used as main external criterium, to 255 patients who attended 5 primary health 
      care centers. RESULTS: The correlation between both procedures was highly 
      positive and significant (r = 0.831; p < 0.001). The cut-off scores (> 28 for men 
      and > 17 for women) showed an ISCA sensitivity rank to detect risky drinking of 
      70-81% for men and 46-100% for women. The ISCA specificity ranks were 82-99% and 
      97-100%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The ISCA seems to be useful to detect risky 
      drinking and it is easy to administer by primary health care professionals. ISCA 
      and AUDIT can be used indistinctly and complementarily.
FAU - Gual, A
AU  - Gual A
AD  - Direccio General de Drogodependencies i Sida, Departament de Sanitat, Generalitat 
      de Catalunya, tgual@clinic.ub.es
FAU - Contel, M
AU  - Contel M
FAU - Segura, L
AU  - Segura L
FAU - Ribas, A
AU  - Ribas A
FAU - Colom, J
AU  - Colom J
LA  - spa
PT  - Evaluation Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
TT  - El ISCA (Interrogatorio Sistematizado de Consumos Alcoholicos): un nuevo 
      instrumento para la identificacion prematura de bebedores de riesgo.
PL  - Spain
TA  - Med Clin (Barc)
JT  - Medicina clinica
JID - 0376377
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Aged, 80 and over
MH  - Alcoholism/*diagnosis
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Primary Health Care
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Sensitivity and Specificity
MH  - *Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2001/12/04 10:00
MHDA- 2002/02/22 10:01
CRDT- 2001/12/04 10:00
PHST- 2001/12/04 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2002/02/22 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2001/12/04 10:00 [entrez]
AID - S0025-7753(01)72224-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s0025-7753(01)72224-5 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med Clin (Barc). 2001 Dec 1;117(18):685-9. doi: 10.1016/s0025-7753(01)72224-5.