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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 5.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2016 Feb 17;161:316–322. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.02.014

Table 4.

PROMIS Alcohol Use equivalents for clinical tiers of the AUDIT, AUDIT-C, and CAGE.

AUDIT score T1 T2 T3
AUDIT PROMIS Alcohol Use AUDIT PROMIS Alcohol Use AUDIT PROMIS Alcohol Use
M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
0–7 3.9 2.0 49.0 6.2 3.3 2.2 46.7 7.7 3.2 2.6 49.5 5.7
8–15 11.4 2.4 55.6 4.7 10.6 2.4 56.0 5.9 10.5 2.5 53.0 6.3
16–19 17.2 1.3 58.1 4.0 17.3 1.1 59.9 3.7 17.4 1.0 59.4 5.1
20+ 29.1 5.1 65.1 5.7 26.5 4.8 63.9 5.4 25.4 4.8 63.0 6.1
AUDIT-C score AUDIT-C PROMIS Alcohol Use AUDIT-C PROMIS Alcohol Use AUDIT-C PROMIS Alcohol Use
M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
Men
0–3 1.3 1.5 52.7 8.1 0.9 1.1 51.5 10.2 1.2 1.3 51.2 7.7
4+ 9.1 2.6 63.0 7.3 7.0 2.2 60.7 7.8 7.3 2.2 59.7 6.4
Women
0–2 0.9 0.9 41.6 5.1 0.4 0.8 51.3 10.3 0.6 0.9 48.9 9.2
3+ 7.4 2.7 60.2 6.6 6.4 2.7 59.4 6.6 6.3 2.3 60.8 7.1
CAGE score CAGE PROMIS Alcohol Use CAGE PROMIS Alcohol Use CAGE PROMIS Alcohol Use
M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
0–1 0.4 0.5 51.1 7.0 0.4 0.5 49.2 7.3 0.2 0.4 49.8 5.6
2+ 3.4 0.7 62.6 6.8 3.4 0.7 60.5 7.6 3.3 0.8 58.8 7.9

Note: The PROMIS item bank scores are T-scores with a population mean of 50 (SD = 10).