필로폰중독 선별검사표 개발에 관한 예비연구(Ⅰ)

A Preliminary Study(I) of Methamphetamine Addiction Screening Test(MAAST)

This is a preliminary study to develop a self-reporting scale that can tell methamphetamine addictor from the simple user of methamphetamine. If once a patient gets dependent upon methamphetamine, recovery from the addiction becomes a very difficult process, and medical support will be needed. Therefore the fundamental solution for methamphetamine problem is to give opportunities of participation in recovery programs to the already dependant addictors among the drug users who are considered to be criminals in general. In order to do this, the discrimination of methamphetamine addictors from simple methamphetamine users must be preceded. This is the reason why we need to develop Methamphetamine Addiction Screening Test (MAAST). As a preparation for the development of MAAST, we have made a survey on prisoners in three penitentiaries in Korea in order to have subjects who have experienced using mehtamphetamine. 373 items were offered to be answered to 265 prisoners related to methamphetamine, and their answers were analyzed. They were classified into Methamphetamine Dependence Group (N＝199) and Methamphetamine Non-dependence Group (N＝66) according to DSM-IV criteria, and we have chosen 72 items of questions that tells the differences between the two groups quite well through chi-square test. Among these items, correlated ones were divided into 13 categories, and the coefficiency of the items and the internal consistency of these categories were ensured by Cronbach s α coefficients. The items we got from this study will be used as candidate questionnaire for the final settlement of MAAST through the next study.