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Screening drug, alcohol and substance abuse the Psychometric measures

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Main Authors: Mohamad Hashim, Othman, Huzili, Hussin, Kamarudin, Hussin, N.S. Alias
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Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2020
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Urinalysis
Psychometric measures
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/69196
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spelling my.unimap-691962020-12-31T01:21:49Z Screening drug, alcohol and substance abuse the Psychometric measures Mohamad Hashim, Othman Huzili, Hussin Kamarudin, Hussin N.S. Alias Urinalysis Psychometric measures Link to publisher's homepage at https://www.matec-conferences.org/ Urinalysis was used in previous studies among higher institution students (n=16252) in Malaysia to answer the question of whether university students are involved in drug abuse. However, the use of urinalysis had faced some problems. The problems were related to human rights issues and the cost to perform the urinalysis was expensive and quite impossible to be implemented to a large population of university students. To overcome this problem, this study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of psychometric measures in screening drug, alcohol and substance abuse. The Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory A2 (SASSI-A2) was used for this purpose. SASSI-A2 is a brief screening tool designed to identify individuals who have a high probability of having a substance use disorder, including both substance abuse and substance dependence. SASSI-A2 comprises of 72 items that are rated on a two point scale with response; true and false. SASSI-A2 was translated into Malay language and it was refined through a back-translation technique and focus group approach. Psychometric testing was undertaken on a sample of 750 university students from five public universities in Malaysia. All participants were aged between 19 and 20 years. Internal consistency coefficients were calculated for the total scale and its subscales. Chronbach's alpha obtained for SASSI-A2 was 0.72. This relatively high level of Chronbach's alpha showed relatively high level of reliability. The results demonstrated that the whole SASSI-A2 meets the fundamental measurement properties and can discriminate groups of higher institution students from high to low on the substance dependency variable. The accuracy of the test has been found to be unaffected by gender, ethnicity, age and years of education. Although more rigorous validation studies are needed, it is recommended that SASSI-A2 be considered for usage to higher institution students populations when a brief, objective, and accurate screening tool for chemical dependency is needed. 2020-12-31T01:21:49Z 2020-12-31T01:21:49Z 2018 Article MATEC Web of Conferences, vol.150, 2018, 5 pages 2261-236X (online) http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/69196 https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201815005069 en Malaysia Technical Universities Conference on Engineering and Technology (MUCET 2017); EDP Sciences
institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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language English
topic Urinalysis
Psychometric measures
spellingShingle Urinalysis
Psychometric measures
Mohamad Hashim, Othman
Huzili, Hussin
Kamarudin, Hussin
N.S. Alias
Screening drug, alcohol and substance abuse the Psychometric measures
description Link to publisher's homepage at https://www.matec-conferences.org/
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author Mohamad Hashim, Othman
Huzili, Hussin
Kamarudin, Hussin
N.S. Alias
author_facet Mohamad Hashim, Othman
Huzili, Hussin
Kamarudin, Hussin
N.S. Alias
author_sort Mohamad Hashim, Othman
title Screening drug, alcohol and substance abuse the Psychometric measures
title_short Screening drug, alcohol and substance abuse the Psychometric measures
title_full Screening drug, alcohol and substance abuse the Psychometric measures
title_fullStr Screening drug, alcohol and substance abuse the Psychometric measures
title_full_unstemmed Screening drug, alcohol and substance abuse the Psychometric measures
title_sort screening drug, alcohol and substance abuse the psychometric measures
publisher EDP Sciences
publishDate 2020
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/69196
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