DEVELOPMENT OF CD ROM BASED INSTRUMENT WIZARD FOR SUBS

该项目将开发一个基于计算机的“仪器向导”系统，以帮助学校、社区组织、州和地方机构识别和使用适当的工具来测量药物滥用和相关因素。第一阶段将完成一项全面的文献审查，并从药物滥用测量专家那里获得投入，以创建一个全面的工具目录和分类。它将开发一个基于CD-ROM的原型仪器向导，并有典型的系统最终用户和药物滥用测量专家审查，提供关于原型系统的建议和评级，包括其可行性。预计工具向导系统将帮助不同群体更有效和高效地确定和使用适当的工具，这反过来将帮助他们更准确地测量药物滥用和相关因素，评估和确定需求，选择和设计预防性干预措施，并确定这些干预措施的有效性。在实现这些期望的范围内，“工具向导”将有助于减少药物滥用及其后果的努力。

This project will develop a computer-based ~Instrument Wizard~ system to help schools, community organizations, and State and local agencies to identify and use appropriate instruments for measuring substance abuse and related factors. Phase I will complete a comprehensive literature review and obtain input from substance abuse measurement experts to create a comprehensive instrument catalogue and taxonomy. It will develop a prototype CD-ROM based Instrument Wizard and have typical system end-users and substance abuse measurement experts review, offer recommendations on and rate the prototype system including its feasibility. It is expected that the Instrument Wizard system will help varied groups to more effectively and efficiently identify and use appropriate instruments, which in turn will help them to more accurately measure substance abuse and related factors, assess and target needs, select and design preventive interventions, and determine the effectiveness of these interventions. To the extent that these expectations are realized, the Instrument Wizard will contribute to efforts to reduce substance abuse and its consequences.