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Brazilian Version for Screening Adolescents Drug Use: Crafft/Cesare
Pereira BAAX* and Azevedo RCSDepartment of Medical Psychology and Psychiatry, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas (FCM/UNICAMP), Brazil
- *Corresponding Author:
- Bruna Antunes de Aguiar Ximenes Pereira
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychiatry
School of Medical Sciences
University of Campinas (FCM/UNICAMP), Brazil
E-mail: bruna.aax.p@gmail.com
Received Date April 25, 2016; Accepted Date May 28, 2016; Published Date June 05, 2016
Citation: Pereira BAAX, Azevedo RCS (2016) Brazilian Version for Screening Adolescent’s Drug Use: Crafft/Cesare. J Community Med Health 6:433. doi:10.4172/2161-0711.1000433
Copyright: © 2016 Pereira BAAX, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the responsiveness and validity of the Brazilian version of CRAFFT as a screening drug test in adolescents.
Method: Descriptive and quantitative research, which assessed the applicability through a convenience sampling of technical school’s students (14-21 years). Kappa coefficient was applied to investigate the correspondence between CRAFFT and CEBRID questionnaires and and the ROC curve was performed to evaluate the psychometric properties of CRAFFT.
Results: 1882 students answered the CRAFFT/CESARE questionnaire. The minority of students (2.2%) had problems in comprehending the scale. CRAFFT/CESARE questionnaire’s specificity achieved 73.3%, and it’s sensitivity, 87.1%. The correlations between the questionnaires were considered good (Kappa: 0,461). Six hundred eighty-two (36.2%) of the 1882 adolescents scored positive for CRAFFT/CESARE. Visual inspection of the receiver operating characteristic curve presented the optimal cut point of 2 or more.
Conclusion: Our findings support the utility of the Brazilian version of CRAFFT/CESARE as a screening tool for use of psychoactive substances among Portuguese-speaking Brazilian adolescents. Its characteristics and psychometric properties makes it possible to use in the Brazilian sociocultural context.
