|
KMID : 1118520240210020159
|
|
Psychiatry Investigation
2024 Volume.21 No. 2 p.159 ~ p.164
|
|
|
Validation of the Chinese Version of Penn Alcohol Craving Scale for Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder
|
|
Yu-Yu Ko
Su-Chen Fang
Wei-Chien Huang
Ming-Chyi Huang
Hu-Ming Chang
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Objective: The Penn Alcohol Craving Scale (PACS) is a five-item, single-dimension questionnaire that is used to measure a patient’s alcohol craving. We sought to develop the Chinese version of the PACS (PACS-C) and assess its reliability and validity.
Methods: A total of 160 Taiwanese patients with alcohol use disorder were enrolled in this study. The internal consistency and concurrent validity of the PASC-C with the visual analogue scale (VAS) for craving, the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale for heavy drinking (YBOCS-hd), and the Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire (SADQ) were assessed. The test-retest reliability of the PASC-C was evaluated 1 day after the baseline measurements. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed to examine the psychometric properties of the PACS-C.
Results: The PACS-C exhibited good internal consistency (Cronbach’s α=0.95) and test-retest reliability (r=0.97). This scale showed high correlations with the VAS (r=0.81) and YBOCS-hd (r=0.81 and 0.79 for the obsession and compulsion subscales, respectively), and moderate correlation with the SADQ-C (r=0.47). Furthermore, CFA results revealed that the PACS-C had good fit indices under various models.
Conclusion: The PACS-C appears to be a reliable and valid tool for assessing alcohol craving in patients with alcohol use disorder in Taiwan.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Craving, Alcohol use disorder, Penn alcohol craving scale
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|