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Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 112-121, 2001
© 2001 Medical Council on Alcoholism

Alcohol use inventory: screening and assessment of first-time driving-while-impaired offenders. I. Reliability and profiles

I. Chang*, S. C. Lapham and K. W. Wanberg1

Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest, 6624 Gulton Court NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109 and
1 Clinical Psychology, 16050 West 69th Place, Arvada, CO 80007, USA

Received 10 August 1999; first review notified 17 August 2000; accepted 17 September 2000

— This study evaluated the use of the Alcohol Use Inventory (AUI) in a drink-driving offender population court-mandated to attend a screening programme. We compared offenders' scale scores, reliability statistics and profiles to those from two clinical populations on which the AUI was normed. Among offenders, males and females had similar levels of involvement with alcohol, and Native Americans had higher scale scores than other ethnic groups. Comparisons with the normative population revealed lower mean scale scores and lower reliability scores among offenders. Differences between the offender and normative populations were most pronounced for the primary scales. We also found inconsistencies in offenders' responses to certain questions. To address this, we recommend that, when using the AUI for screening offenders: (1) screeners place more emphasis on second- and third-order scales than primary scales; (2) lower cut-off points be used for identifying problem drinkers; (3) counsellors conduct in-person interviews with clients to develop rapport and encourage self-disclosure.


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