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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Horm Behav. 2009 Sep 18;58(1):111–121. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.09.006

Table 1.

Individuals Meeting DSM Criteria for Substance Dependence in Eight Field Studies of AAS Users

Study Location Instrument Criteria AAS Usersa AAS Dependence, N
(%)a
Brower et al., 1991 USA Questionnaire DSM-III-R 49 M 28 (57)
Gridley & Hanrahan, 1994 Australia Questionnaire DSM-IV 21 M 12 (57)
Pope & Katz, 1994 USA SCIDb DSM-III-R 88 M 22 (25)
Malone et al., 1995 USA SCIDb DSM-III-R 71 M, 6 F 10 M, 1 F (14% overall)
Midgley et al., 1999 England Semi-structured interview DSM-III-R 50 M 13 (26)
Copeland et al., 2000 Australia Semi-structured interview DSM-IV 94 M, 6 F 21 M, 2 F (23% overall)
Perry et al., 2005 USA Internet survey DSM-IV 206 M 68 (33)
Kanayama et al., 2009b USA Semi-structured interview DSM-IVc 62 M 20 (32)

Total 641 M, 12 F 194 M, 3 F (30% overall)
a

Gender distribution obtained from published papers and from Perry, PJ, personal communication, October, 2008, and Malone, DA, personal communication, January, 2009.

b

Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R.

c

Modified DSM-IV criteria adapted for diagnosing AAS dependence (see Kanayama et al., 2009a).