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The Minnesota Substance Abuse Problems Scale
Author(s) -
Westermeyer Joseph,
Crosby Ross,
Nugent Sean
Publication year - 1998
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.1521-0391.1998.tb00464.x
Subject(s) - addiction , substance abuse , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , scale (ratio) , substance use , substance abuse treatment , interpersonal communication , psychometrics , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
The authors determined interrelationships among 61 items in a scale designed to assess the severity of substance‐related disorder (SRD) and develop subscales that measure distinct substance‐related areas of dysfunction. They evaluated 642 outpatients with items previously developed among patients with SRDs. Trained interviewers administered the Minnesota Substance Abuse Problem Scales (M‐SAPS), which uses responses to yes/no (lifetime) questions. A factor analysis of items was compared with data from patients and addiction psychiatrists to measure the concurrent validity of the M‐SAPS factors, yielding 37 items in three factors: Psychiatric‐Behavioral Problems (14 items), Social‐Interpersonal Problems (11 items), and Addiction‐Dependence Symptoms (12 items). These three scales correlate with 10 scales/assessments concurrently collected independently of the M‐SAPS, yielding a brief, valid, interviewer‐administered, substance‐related problem scale that assesses SRD severity in three distinct areas.