HAI-GWO HWUGorenc K.-D.Peredo S.TZUNG-JENG HWANGAbreu L.F.Chen C.-C.2020-10-232020-10-2320030929-6646https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0042914552&partnerID=40&md5=ba456e9edcaa45f927c427161d01e18dhttps://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/517996Background and Purpose: There has been a marked increase in the prevalence of alcoholism in the Taiwanese population over the past 6 decades. This study was designed to establish a Taiwanese Brief Alcholism Screening Questionnaire (BASQ) for use in early detection in medical and public health settings. Methods: Interview data were collected from the database of the Taiwan Psychiatric Epidemiological Project (TPEP). The TPEP interviews had been conducted using the Chinese-modified version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS-CM) that included a section on alcoholism diagnosis. Data collected from a community sample of 13,373 subjects was used in this study. Twenty nine DIS-CM items for alcoholism diagnosis were entered into an analytic model with 7 statistical filters to identify cross-cultural items. A brief alcoholism screening questionnaire was constructed using these selected items. The validity of the questionnaire was tested in subjects (n = 457) recruited from a local medical center, a hospital clinic, and an alcoholism clinic of a psychiatric center. Results: Four cross-cultural items were identified and the BASQ was constructed. This BASQ had a best cut-off point of 3 with adequate sensitivity (0.86 to 0.88), specificity (0.88 to 0.89), and positive prediction rate (0.90 to 0.91). It detected a varying prevalence of alcoholism (10.1 to 90.3%) in diverse clinical settings. Conclusions: A 4-item BASQ was established with adequate validity for clinical and public health application in the early detection of alcoholism in Taiwanese subjects.Alcoholism, cultural characteristics; Questionnaires, reproducibility of results; Sensitivity and specificity[SDGs]SDG3alcoholism; article; clinical practice; community hospital; controlled study; cultural anthropology; early diagnosis; female; human; interview; major clinical study; male; mental health center; prediction; prevalence; public health service; questionnaire; reliability; screening; sensitivity and specificity; statistical analysis; Taiwan; validation process; Alcoholism; Chi-Square Distribution; Cultural Characteristics; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Female; Humans; Male; Predictive Value of Tests; Prevalence; Psychometrics; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of Results; ROC Curve; Sensitivity and Specificity; Taiwanjournal article128331892-s2.0-0042914552