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Alcohol & Alcoholism Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 439-444, 2004
Alcohol & Alcoholism Vol. 39, No. 5 © Medical Council on Alcohol 2004; all rights reserved

CUGE: A SCREENING INSTRUMENT FOR ALCOHOL ABUSE AND DEPENDENCE IN STUDENTS

A. Van Den Bruel1,*, B. Aertgeerts1, K. Hoppenbrouwers2, M. Roelants2 and F. Buntinx1

1 Department of General Practice and 2 Department of Adolescent Health, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed at: Academisch Centrum Huisartsgeneeskunde, Kapucijnenvoer 33 blok J, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. Tel.: 0032 16 33 74 93; Fax: 0032 16 33 74 80; E-mail: ann.vandenbruel{at}med.kuleuven.ac.be

(Received 3 February 2004; first review notified 24 March 2004; in revised form 13 May 2004; accepted 13 May 2004)

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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