Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of CRAFFT Substance Abuse Screening Test among adolescents

Hasan Kandemir; Ömer Aydemir; Suat Ekinci; Salih Selek; Sultan B Kandemir; Hüseyin Bayazit

doi:10.2147/NDT.S82232

Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of CRAFFT Substance Abuse Screening Test among adolescents

Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2015 Jun 22:11:1505-9. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S82232. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Hasan Kandemir¹, Ömer Aydemir², Suat Ekinci³, Salih Selek⁴, Sultan B Kandemir⁵, Hüseyin Bayazit⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Harran University, Sanliurfa, Turkey.
² Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey.
³ Balıklı Rum Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Balikligol State Hospital, Sanliurfa, Turkey.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Harran University, Sanliurfa, Turkey.

Abstract

Aim: This study aimed to validate the CRAFFT diagnostic test, against the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition, Axis 1-based diagnostic inventory in a Turkish population of adolescents.

Method: The 124 adolescents who were 15-18 years old were enrolled to this study. CRAFFT was self-administered. Interviews took approximately 30 minutes, including the DSM-IV diagnostic interview for alcohol/drug dependence.

Results: The mean age of subjects was 16.653 years (minimum: 15 years, maximum: 18 years). A score of 2 or higher in part B was found to be optimal for detecting youths with substance dependence problems (sensitivity: 0.82; specificity: 0.88) and it was sufficiently discriminative.

Conclusion: The CRAFFT is a valid and reliable instrument for identifying Turkish-speaking youths at risk for substance use disorders.

Keywords: CRAFFT; Turkish; adolescent; substance abuse; validity.