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Screening of cannabis-related problems among youth: the CPQ-A-S and CAST questionnaires
BACKGROUND: Cannabis use among young people is a significant problem, making particularly necessary validated screening instruments that permit secondary prevention. The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the psychometric properties of the CAST and CPQ-A-S questionnaires, two screening...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3375190/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22471908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-7-13 |
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author | Fernandez-Artamendi, Sergio Fernández-Hermida, José Ramón Muñiz-Fernández, José Secades-Villa, Roberto García-Fernández, Gloria |
author_facet | Fernandez-Artamendi, Sergio Fernández-Hermida, José Ramón Muñiz-Fernández, José Secades-Villa, Roberto García-Fernández, Gloria |
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description | BACKGROUND: Cannabis use among young people is a significant problem, making particularly necessary validated screening instruments that permit secondary prevention. The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the psychometric properties of the CAST and CPQ-A-S questionnaires, two screening instruments specifically addressing the youth population. METHODS: Information was obtained on sociodemographics, frequency of substance use, psychopathological symptoms and cannabis-use problems, and the CPQ-A-S and CAST were applied, as well as an infrequency scale for discarding responses made randomly. The sample was made up of 144 young people aged 16 to 20 that had used cannabis in the last month, of which 71.5% were boys. Mean age of the sample was 17.38 years (SD = 1.16). RESULTS: The results show that from the psychometric point of view both the CAST and the CPQ-A-S are good screening instruments. CONCLUSIONS: The CAST is shorter and presents slightly better internal consistency than the CPQ-A-S. Both instruments show high sensitivity and specificity in the detection of young people dependent on cannabis according to the DSM IV-TR criteria. The CPQ-A-S appears to show greater capacity for detecting psychopathological distress associated with use. Both questionnaires yield significant odds ratios as predictors of frequent cannabis use and of the DSM IV-TR abuse and dependence criteria. In general, the CPQ-A-S emerges as a better predictor than the CAST. |
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spelling | pubmed-33751902012-06-15 Screening of cannabis-related problems among youth: the CPQ-A-S and CAST questionnaires Fernandez-Artamendi, Sergio Fernández-Hermida, José Ramón Muñiz-Fernández, José Secades-Villa, Roberto García-Fernández, Gloria Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy Research BACKGROUND: Cannabis use among young people is a significant problem, making particularly necessary validated screening instruments that permit secondary prevention. The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the psychometric properties of the CAST and CPQ-A-S questionnaires, two screening instruments specifically addressing the youth population. METHODS: Information was obtained on sociodemographics, frequency of substance use, psychopathological symptoms and cannabis-use problems, and the CPQ-A-S and CAST were applied, as well as an infrequency scale for discarding responses made randomly. The sample was made up of 144 young people aged 16 to 20 that had used cannabis in the last month, of which 71.5% were boys. Mean age of the sample was 17.38 years (SD = 1.16). RESULTS: The results show that from the psychometric point of view both the CAST and the CPQ-A-S are good screening instruments. CONCLUSIONS: The CAST is shorter and presents slightly better internal consistency than the CPQ-A-S. Both instruments show high sensitivity and specificity in the detection of young people dependent on cannabis according to the DSM IV-TR criteria. The CPQ-A-S appears to show greater capacity for detecting psychopathological distress associated with use. Both questionnaires yield significant odds ratios as predictors of frequent cannabis use and of the DSM IV-TR abuse and dependence criteria. In general, the CPQ-A-S emerges as a better predictor than the CAST. BioMed Central 2012-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3375190/ /pubmed/22471908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-7-13 Text en Copyright ©2012 Fernandez-Artamendi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Fernandez-Artamendi, Sergio Fernández-Hermida, José Ramón Muñiz-Fernández, José Secades-Villa, Roberto García-Fernández, Gloria Screening of cannabis-related problems among youth: the CPQ-A-S and CAST questionnaires |
title | Screening of cannabis-related problems among youth: the CPQ-A-S and CAST questionnaires |
title_full | Screening of cannabis-related problems among youth: the CPQ-A-S and CAST questionnaires |
title_fullStr | Screening of cannabis-related problems among youth: the CPQ-A-S and CAST questionnaires |
title_full_unstemmed | Screening of cannabis-related problems among youth: the CPQ-A-S and CAST questionnaires |
title_short | Screening of cannabis-related problems among youth: the CPQ-A-S and CAST questionnaires |
title_sort | screening of cannabis-related problems among youth: the cpq-a-s and cast questionnaires |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3375190/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22471908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-7-13 |
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