Validity and item response theory properties of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test for primary care alcohol use screening in Mozambique (AUDIT-MZ)

Integrating a Transdiagnostic Psychological Intervention Into Routine HIV Care: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Common Elements Treatment Approach in Mozambique

“…Under the CETA model, all patients with newly diagnosed HIV are screened for CMD symptoms using 2 locally adapted and validated cross-cutting tools, the Combined Assessment for Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care - Mozambique version (CAD-MZ) and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test - Concise - Mozambique version (AUDIT-C-MZ) CAD-MZ 36 and the AUDIT-C-MZ. 37 Patients who screen positive are invited to enroll in CETA and at intake are administered the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire 39 to examine specific trauma exposure. After intake, all CETA patients are given their first treatment session, “Introduction to CETA and Encouraging Participation.” CETA uses measurement-based care at each session (including the first session); counselors administer a 20-question transdiagnostic mental health symptom monitoring tool that includes elements of the CAD-MZ, AUDIT-C-MZ, Harvard Trauma Questionnaire, and other questions designed to comprehensively track patient symptoms and safety regarding suicidal or other violent ideation while also informing treatment tailoring and selection of CETA treatment elements.…”

“…Under the CETA model, all patients with newly diagnosed HIV are screened for CMD symptoms using 2 locally adapted and validated cross-cutting tools, the Combined Assessment for Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care -Mozambique version (CAD-MZ) and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test -Concise -Mozambique version (AUDIT-C-MZ) CAD-MZ 36 and the AUDIT-C-MZ. 37 Patients who screen positive are invited to enroll in CETA and at intake are administered the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire 39 to examine specific trauma exposure. After intake, all CETA patients are given their first treatment session, "Introduction to CETA and Encouraging Participation."…”

Predictors of participant retention in a community-based HIV prevention cohort: perspectives from the HPTN 071 (PopART) study

“…We investigated the following variables that may be related to study retention: age (18-24, 25-35, 35-44), sex (male, female), marital status (married/living as married, never married, divorced/separated/widowed), nights spent away from home in the past three months (none, 1 to 7, 8 to 30, > 30), socio economic factors: education level (none to primary, full to partial secondary school, college/university), employment status (employed, student, unemployed), country-speci c socioeconomic status (SES) level (low, medium, high, calculated using methods described in the supplementary materials); study factors: arm (arm A, arm B, arm C); behavioral factors: multiple sex partners in the past 12 months (yes, no), condom-less last sex (yes, no), alcohol use disorder identi cation test (AUDIT) score (categories low: 0-7 medium: 8-14, high: 15-40) (15), recreational drug use (yes, no), health care factors: lab-con rmed baseline HIV status, sick days taken off from work in past 3 months (none, 1-5, > 5), disability status, self-report HIV status and care (negative, don't know, never tested, positive -have registered for care, positive -never registered for care), self-report ever told you have tuberculosis (yes, no). Number and percent of baseline characteristics were summarized among all participants enrolled in PC0, by arm and overall.…”

Examination of the Factor Structure of Psychopathology in a Mozambican Sample

“…For the present study, internalizing symptoms of depression, anxiety, somatization, posttraumatic stress disorder, and panic disorder were assessed using the nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9; Cumbe et al, 2020;Kroenke & Spitzer, 2002), seven-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) scale (Spitzer et al, 2006), eight-item Somatic Symptom Scale (SSS-8; Gierk et al, 2014), five-item Primary Care Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Screen (PC-PTSD; Prins et al, 2016), and MINI Panic Disorder symptom count, respectively. We assessed externalizing symptoms of alcohol and cannabis use disorders using the 10-item Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT; Atkins et al, 2021;Babor et al, 2001) and seven-item Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST; World Health Organization [WHO] ASSIST Working Group, 2002). In the original study, in the externalizing domain, only these substance use disorder measures were administered, and antisocial behavior was not assessed in any form; thus, we refer to this domain as (Bebbington & Nayani, 1995).…”