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MAST: (Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test)
yes no
2 1. Do you feel you are a normal drinker?
2 2. Have you ever awakened the morning after some
drinking the night before and found that you could not remember part
of the evening before?
1 3. Does your wife, husband or parents ever worry
or complain about your drinking?
2 *
4. Can you stop drinking without
a struggle after one or two drinks?
1 5. Do you ever feel bad about your drinking?
2 *
6. Do friends or relatives think
you are a normal drinker?
1 7. Do you ever try to limit your drinking to certain
times of the day or to certain places?
2 *
8. Are you always able to stop
drinking when you want to?
5 9. Have you ever attended a meeting of Alcoholics
Anonymous AA?
1 10. Have you gotten into fights when drinking?
2 11. Has drinking ever created problems with you
and your wife, husband?
2 12. Has your wife, husband or other family member
ever gone to anyone for help about your drinking?
2 13. Have you ever lost friends or girlfriends/boyfriends
because of your drinking?
2 14. Have you ever gotten into trouble at work because
of drinking?
2 15. Have you ever lost a job because of drinking?
2 16. Have you ever neglected your obligations, your
family, or your work for 2 or
more days in a row because you were drinking?
1 17. Do you ever drink before noon?
2 18. Have you ever been told you have liver trouble?
Cirrhosis?
2 19. Have you ever had delirium tremens DTs, severe
shaking, after heavy drinking?
5 20. Have you ever gone to anyone for help about
your drinking?
5 21. Have you ever been in a hospital because of
your drinking?
2 22. Have you ever been a patient in a psychiatric
hospital or on a psychiatric ward of a general hospital where drinking
was part of the problem?
2 23. Have you ever been seen at a psychiatric or
mental health clinic, or gone to a doctor, social worker, or clergyman
for help with an emotional problem in which drinking has played a part?
2 24. Have you ever been arrested, even for a few
hours, because of drunk behavior?
2 25. Have you ever been arrested for drunk driving or driving after drinking?
Scoring: <=3
points, nonalcoholic;
4
points, suggestive of alcoholism;
5 or more, indicates alcoholism
Reference: Selzer ML. The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test: The
quest for a new diagnostic instrument. American Journal of Psychiatry 127(12):
1653-1658, 1971.
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