Measurement errors of a short self-assessed test on alcoholism

ABSTRACT

The Munich Alcoholism Test (MALT) was applied in several European (Germany and Spain) and Hispano-american (Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Chile) countries, using an items-reduced-desing. Four culture-free items were detected, which yielded a short and self-assessed Cross-Cultural Index of Alcoholism. The Hispano-american samples used in a simulacrum, have empirically demonstrated that this instrument measures alcoholism and has an adequate degree of accuracy in the measurement