Scale Overview & Construct
10-item WHO screening tool for hazardous and harmful patterns of alcohol consumption.
Purpose & Measurement Objectives
Instrument Specifications
Scientific Documentation & Psychometric Rigor
Internal Consistency & Reliability
Cross-national WHO validation study reported good internal consistency across six countries.
Construct & Criterion Validity
Validated across diverse international primary-care populations; one of the most widely used alcohol-screening instruments globally.
Academic Citations
Saunders, J. B., Aasland, O. G., Babor, T. F., De la Fuente, J. R., & Grant, M. (1993). Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project. Addiction, 88(6), 791-804.
Academic Citation & Instrument Provenance
When referencing this instrument in research, academic theses, or clinical institutional audits, please cite the original author publication:
Governance, Boundaries & Ethical Use
Imported from the OpenScales open item-bank project. That source file collapsed items 1-8 onto one generic frequency scale, which does not match the officially published WHO AUDIT (item 2 asks about drink quantity, not frequency, and uses its own scale). This build uses the official WHO-published per-item response scales instead, since the item wording itself matches the standard instrument exactly. This specific digital implementation has not been independently clinically validated by PsiQ — scores are for self-reflection and educational purposes only, and are not a diagnosis.
License: CC BY 4.0. Citation: Saunders, Aasland, Babor, de la Fuente & Grant (1993), Addiction, 88(6), 791-804. This is not a diagnostic tool.