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MAST

(Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test)

Scoring
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Client/Chart Copy


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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