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MAST

(Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test)

Scoring
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Name_______
Date_______
Score_______



Points


Yes   No

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?

2     -

3.  

Does your wife, husband or parents ever worry or complain about your drinking?

1     -

*4.  

Can you stop drinking without a struggle after one or two drinks?

-     2

5.  

Do you ever feel bad about your drinking?

1     -

*6.  

Do friends or relatives think you are a normal drinker?

-     2

7.  

Do you ever try to limit your drinking to certain times of the day or to certain places?

1     -

*8.  

Are you always able to stop drinking when you want to?

-     2

9.  

Have you ever attended a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous AA?

5     -

10.  

Have you gotten into fights when drinking?

1     -

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?

2     -

17.  

Do you ever drink before noon?

1     -

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?

2     -

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?

5     -

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?

2     -

* Negative responses are alcoholic responses


Scoring: One point for each positive answer.
<=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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