The Maudsley Addiction Profile (MAP): a brief instrument for assessing treatment outcome

• DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.1998.9312185711.x
• Publication Date: 2003-03-10T10:15:28Z
• Authors: John Marsden; Michael Gossop; Duncan Stewart; David Best; Michael Farrell; Petra Lehmann; Carolyn Edwards; John Strang
• Keywords: Questionnaires; Adult; Male; Health Status; Health Behavior; 150; 610; 16. Peace & justice; 3. Good health; Substance Abuse Detection; 03 medical and health sciences; Mental Health; Risk-Taking; Treatment Outcome; 0302 clinical medicine; Surveys and Questionnaires; Interview, Psychological; London; Psychological; Humans; Female; Interview; 0305 other medical science

Aim. To develop a brief, multi‐dimensional instrument for assessing treatment outcome people with drug and/or alcohol problems. The Maudsley Addiction Profile (MAP) is the first to be developed in United Kingdom this purpose. Design. Field testing quota‐recruitment of problem users and researcher clinician‐administered test‐retest interviews. Setting. Two community two inpatient services at Bethlem Royal Hospital, London. Participants. Subjects (160 80 users) interviewed by eight interviewers (four researchers four clinicians), each whom 30 subjects on occasions. Measures. Sixty items across substance use, health risk, physical/psychological personal/social functioning domains. Findings. Average completion time MAP was 12 minutes. questionnaire acceptable majority performed well both clinician interviewers. Internal reliability feasible concurrent validity assessments scales were highly satisfactory. Test‐retest good, average intraclass correlation coefficients substances 0.94 0.81 problems, relationship conflict, employment crime measures. Conclusions. can serve as core research additional measures added required. collection set reliable quantitative problems among or personnel evaluation purposes need not time‐consuming.