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、社区组织以及州和地方机构识别和使用适当的仪器来测量药物滥用和相关因素。第一阶段将完成全面的文献审查，并从药物滥用测量专家那里获得意见，以创建全面的仪器目录和分类法。它将开发一个基于光盘的仪器向导原型，并让典型的系统最终用户和药物滥用测量专家审查、提供建议并对原型系统进行评级，包括其可行性。预计仪器向导系统将帮助不同的群体更有效和高效地确定和使用适当的仪器，从而帮助他们更准确地衡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。只要这些期望得以实现，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.