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Modifying the Addiction Severity Index for Use With Pathological Gamblers
Author(s) -
Lesieur Henry R.,
Blume Sheila B.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1521-0391.1992.tb00030.x
Subject(s) - addiction , psychology , pathological , index (typography) , reliability (semiconductor) , clinical psychology , predictive validity , gambling disorder , psychiatry , medicine , computer science , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , world wide web
The Addiction Severity Index (ASI), an instrument used in the evaluation of program effectiveness in the alcohol and drug dependency field, has been expanded and modified for use in patients with gambling problems. The Gambling Severity Index component of the modified ASI was tested for validity using a sample of 119 inpatient pathological gamblers. The ASI modification retains the reliability and validity of the original instrument while adding gambling‐specific items for evaluation of gambling treatment programs in which there are significant numbers of substance‐abusing patients.