The Brief MAST: A Shortened Version of the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test

¹ Chief, Psychiatry and Neurology Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Houston and Professor of Psychiatry and Acting Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex. 77025
² Assistant Professor of Social Work, Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex. 77025
³ Professor of Sociology, Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex. 77025

The authors report an abbreviated version of the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST). They hypothesized, on the basis of previously published data, that scores based on ten of the questions of the MAST would be as effective in discriminating between alcoholics and nonalcoholics as scores based on all 25 questions. The responses of 60 alcoholic and 62 nonalcoholic psychiatric patients supported their hypothesis.

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