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. 2020 Oct 20;55(6):624-630.
doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agaa067.

Adaptation of and Protocol for the Validation of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in the Russian Federation for Use in Primary Healthcare

Jürgen Rehm  1   2   3   4   5   6   7 , Maria Neufeld  1   2   8 , Elena Yurasova  9 , Anna Bunova  10 , Artyom Gil  7 , Boris Gornyi  10 , João Breda  8 , Evgeniy Bryun  11 , Oxana Drapkina  10 , Eugenia Fadeeva  11 , Anna Kalinina  10 , Daria Khaltourina  12 , Tatiana Klimenko  11 , Anna Kontsevaya  10 , Evgenia Koshkina  13 , Natalya Martynova  14 , Alexey Nadezhdin  13 , Kristina Soshkina  14 , Elena Tetenova  13 , Melita Vujnovic  9 , Konstantin Vyshinsky  11 , Carina Ferreira-Borges  8
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Adaptation of and Protocol for the Validation of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in the Russian Federation for Use in Primary Healthcare

Jürgen Rehm et al. Alcohol Alcohol. .

Abstract

Aims: To adapt and validate the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) for use in the Russian Federation and countries with Russian-speaking populations by.

Methods: Systematic review of past use and validation of the Russian-language AUDIT. Interviews to be conducted with experts to identify problems encountered in the use of existing Russian-language AUDIT versions. A pilot study using a revised translation of the Russian-language AUDIT that incorporates country-specific drinking patterns in the Russian Federation.

Results and conclusions: The systematic review identified over 60 different Russian-language AUDIT versions without systematic validation studies. The main difficulties encountered with the use of the AUDIT in the Russian Federation were related to the lack of:A revised version of the Russian-language AUDIT was created based on the pilot studies, and was validated in primary healthcare facilities in all regions in 2019/2020.

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