Identification Tools

Identification and Brief Advice Programme for Sensible Drinking (SIPS)

The SIPS Research is still in progress until the summer 2009, but we feel that it useful to show the resources being used in the project here. Below you can access the tools, information on the research context, and the training and identification and brief advice tools that accompany them.

• Which Screening Tool
  This document provides you with some background information into the Screening and Intervention Programme for Sensible Drinking (SIPS) including an outline of the research, tools and recommended uses....
• Modified-Single Alcohol Screening Question (M-SASQ)
  Finding time to screen for alcohol problems in a busy clinical setting is challenging and this has been the primary reason for developing and including a single item screening test in SIPS.
• Fast Alcohol Screening Test (FAST)
  The FAST Alcohol Screening Test is a 4-item screening test developed for busy clinical settings using the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT). The FAST questionnaire is a two-stage screening...
• SIPS Paddington Alcohol Test (SIPS-PAT)
  The original Paddington Alcohol Test (PAT) has been modified to fit with the SIPS research protocol. Although the original top 10 presenting conditions are retained, which are used to target patients,...
• Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test - AUDIT (standard and extended versions)
  The AUDIT is considered the gold standard test for screening for alcohol use disorders and it is widely used internationally. In SIPS we use the AUDIT questionnaire as an outcome measure, but not as...