Психіатрія та наркологія. Інструменти вимірювання залежностей

<jats:p>The course "Measurement of Substance Use and Abuse" is designed to introduce a wide range of instruments for measuring addictive behavior, methods of their construction and principles of application. The course introduces the ethical and legal aspects of measuring and diagnosing chemical addictions, modern approaches to the classification of behavioral disorders due to the use of chemical substances in the DSM and ICD, methodical and methodological principles of measuring addictive behavior, in particular the methods of mathematical statistics, which are the basis for the standardization and adaptation of diagnostic methods (reliability, validity, correlation and factor analysis), complex and specific tools for diagnosing and measuring addictive behavior. The course provides the most common methods of measuring and diagnosing chemical dependencies, as well as instructions for their application and interpretation of the obtained results. This course is the second in the "Addictive Behavior" educational cycle, designed to be studied after the introductory course "Addiction Research Methods". The course was created within the framework of the Ukrainian-American project "Capacity Building for Lifespan Focused Substance Use Disorder Research in Ukraine" (4D43TW009310-05) under supervision of the Addiction Center of the University of Michigan (USA) with the support of the Fogarty International Center (FIC ), National Institute of Health (NIH), National Institute on Alcohol Dependence and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).</jats:p>