Personal Drug Use Questionnaire

Original/alternative title: 
SOCRATES 8.0
Summary 

The Personal Drug Use Questionnaire is a 19 items self-administered questionnaire and its primary use is to assess readiness for change in drug users. These instruments (SOCRATES, in its different forms) can be used as useful research instruments to assess readiness for change in clinical substance user populations.

Various other forms of the SOCRATES have been developed.

  • 7A-SO-M 32-item alcohol questionnaire for significant others of males
  • 7A-SO-F 32-item alcohol questionnaire for SOs of females
  • 7D-SO-F 32-item drug/alcohol questionnaire for SOs of females
  • 7D-SO-M 32-item drug/alcohol questionnaire for SOs of males

Version 8 is a reduced 19-item scale based on factor analyses with prior versions. The shorter form was developed using the items that most strongly marked each factorand is currently the recommended version.

Tool available here
Additional information 

Miller, W. R., & Tonigan, J. S. (1996). Assessing drinkers' motivation for change: The Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale (SOCRATES), Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 10(2), 81-89.

Personal Drug Use Questionnaire
Organisation (author): 
University of New Mexico
Category: 
evaluation instruments
Date: 
9 May 1994  (approximate)
Access: 
Open access
Authors: 
William R. Miller
Document language: 
English,
Spanish

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tools

Keywords

evaluation instrument
tools for practice
treatment of drug use

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