Substance use, including illicit drug use and alcohol, is prevalent worldwide with about 5% of adults using illicit substances and 40% of adults consuming alcohol, in the past year. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. The online version of the AUDIT is useful for detecting alcohol consumption categories and alcohol dependence in Spanish university students.Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. AUDIT cut-off points of 6/8 (women/men) for moderate-risk drinking and 13 for alcohol dependence showed sensitivity/specificity of 76.2%/78.9% and 56%/97.5%, respectively. Areas under the curve (AUC) were very large for dependence (AUC = 0.96) and adequate for consumption categories (AUC > 0.7). Significant AUDIT score differences were observed by TLFB categories and by MINI disorders. The confirmatory factor analysis for the one-factor solution of the AUDIT showed a good fit to the data. Results: 287 students (75% women) completed the MINI, of whom 242 also completed the TLFB. Reliability, construct validity and diagnostic accuracy were assessed.
A reappraisal interview was carried out with the Timeline Followback (TLFB) for alcohol consumption categories and the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) for alcohol use disorder.
We used a longitudinal online survey (the UNIVERSAL project) of first-year students (18–24 years old) in five universities, including the AUDIT, as part of the WHO World Mental Health International College Student (WMH-ICS) initiative. We assessed psychometric properties of an online version of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) among Spanish university students. Online alcohol screening may be helpful in preventing alcohol use disorders.
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