Supplied by Claudia Salazar (Manager, telephone 0208 846 7870)
Below: CISS score profile of 43 BKCW clients (15 female & 28 male) compared to that of 102 clients from the Alcohol Advisory Service of Camden and Islington (AASCI, as used in the CISS validation paper).
The average CISS score for 102 AASCI alcohol users was 8.1 (SD = 3.4)
Correlations with CISS scores
Alcohol consumption measures were available for all clients, and some of the 43 clients also completed other scales. These variables were correlated (using Pearson two-tailed correlations) with CISS scores in the table below.
|
Variable |
Number of clients |
Correlation with CISS score |
Significance (p) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sex (0 = female, 1 = male) |
43 |
.45 |
.003 |
|
Age |
43 |
-.08 |
n.s. |
|
General Health Questionnaire |
22 |
.55 |
.008 |
|
Readiness to Change Questionnaire |
21 |
-.57 |
.007 |
|
Drinking days per month |
43 |
.44 |
.003 |
|
Alcohol units per drinking day |
43 |
.46 |
.002 |
|
Alcohol units per month |
43 |
.45 |
.002 |
Higher CISS scores were significantly associated with being male, having more health problems, not being in the 'action' stage of change, and drinking more alcohol. CISS scores were unrelated to age.
Links within CISS site
CISS home page and index.
CISS general overview. Unedited version of an explanatory article about CISS which appeared in Addiction Today Magazine (Nov/Dec, 1999)
CISS comparison scores for harm minimisation oriented methadone prescribing outpatient services
CISS comparison scores for an outpatient alcohol service (item score comparisons with drug users)
CISS comparison scores and cutoffs for abstinence oriented services
CISS technical information (reliability, validity, correlations with other scales)
CISS detailed information. Validation of the Christo Inventory for Substance-misuse Services (CISS): a simple outcome evaluation tool (from Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2000).
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1998 George Christo PhD, PsychD.