In an article entitled, "What Every Social Worker Needs To Know About Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)", Dr. Shelley Steenrod provides a succinct overview of the SBIRT model and how it can save lives, reduce health care costs and improve overall productivity.
To support providers' use of SBIRT, the Greater Houston Behavioral Health Affordable Care Act (BHACA) Initiative has compiled the below chart that provides details about some SBIRT screening tools, expanding on the above-mentioned article.
Measure Name |
Description |
Proprietary |
Number of Questions and/or Assessment Time |
ASSIST: Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test |
8 item questionnaire designed to screen for substance use of following substances: - Tobacco Products - Alcohol - Cannabis - Cocaine - Amphetamine-Type Stimulants - Sedatives and Sleeping Pills - Hallucinogens - Inhalants - Opioids - Other drugs |
NO |
8 question topics
5-10 minutes |
- 10-item questionnaire developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1982 |
NO |
10 questions
2-4 minutes |
|
- CAGE: 4-item questionnaire designed to help detect alcoholism |
NO |
4 questions each
< 1 minute |
|
CRAFFT Screening Tool for Substance Use: Car, Relax, Alone, Forget, Friends, Trouble |
- Series of 6 questions developed to screen adolescents (under 21) for high risk alcohol and other drug use disorders simultaneously |
NO |
Part A: 3 questions
Part B: 6 questions
< 5 minutes |
- Self-report measure that has been condensed from the 28-item DAST. |
NO |
10 questions
< 8 minutes |
|
MAST-G: Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test - Geriatric Version |
- Screening tool to help assess alcoholism |
NO |
24 questions |