Clinical tools: Tools and forms
A tool developed by the Addiction Shared Care Program at St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto, to facilitate a comprehensive alcohol use assessment.
ALPHA form
A tool designed to help health care providers assess psychosocial health in pregnancy. See: Screening for alcohol use in pregnancy
Assessment of Living Skills and Resources (ALSAR)
The Assessment of Living Skills and Resources, ALSAR, is an instrument developed to help health professionals assess instrumental activities of daily living. It focuses on accomplishment of tasks rather than potential capabilities. It is completed as an interview, supplemented with observation of skills whenever possible.
AUDIT-10
The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test: Guidelines for Use in Primary Care (2nd ed.). Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
Manual: Includes the AUDIT questionnaire and describes how to use it to identify people with hazardous and harmful patterns of alcohol consumption.
This alcohol screener includes the first three questions of the AUDIT-10.
The Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol Scale (CIWA-Ar)
A standardized clinical tool that facilitates assessment of alcohol withdrawal.
See: Alcohol withdrawal
Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HAM-A)
A rating scale that quantifies the severity of anxiety symptomatology. It is often used in psychotropic drug evaluation. The HAM-A contains 14 items, each defined by a series of symptoms.
Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAMD-7)
A tool to use in primary care settings to measure depression.
See: Identifying concurrent alcohol use and depressive disorders
Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)
A self-administered screening tool for depression.
See: Assessing concurrent alcohol use and depressive disorders
Senior Alcohol Misuse Indicator (SAMI)
A brief, senior-specific screening tool with questions that are designed to detect existing or potential alcohol problems in older adults without eliciting negative reactions, such as denial and defensiveness, from those being screened. View the introduction video to understand the usage of the tool.
Short Michigan Alcohol Screening Test –Geriatric version (SMAST-G)
SMAST-G is a version of the Short Michigan Alcohol Screening Test modified for the geriatric population.
See Screening for alcohol problems: Older adults
T-ACE is a measurement tool featuring four questions that are significant identifiers of risk drinking (i.e., alcohol intake sufficient to potentially damage the embryo/fetus).
See: Screening for alcohol use in pregnancy
TWEAK is a five-item scale developed originally to screen for risk drinking during pregnancy.
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