Development & validation of the craving automated scale for substance

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Development and validation of the craving automated scale for substance addiction

• IRAS ID

  208505

• Contact name

  Hong zeng

• Contact email

  H.Zeng@bham.ac.uk

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 3 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  Craving plays an important role in the mechanisms underlying drug use and relapse.Even after long periods of abstinence, confrontation with substances or
  substance-associated cues can provoke craving and drug seeking behaviour which called cue-induced reactivity, it includes both conscious and unconscious craving Drug consumption has been suggested to be associated with a dysregulation in habit formation and execution in dependent patients. Although there are established craving questionnaires assessing various components of craving, to our knowledge, no questionnaire exists to assess habitual and automated substance intake. In this study, we present and validate the “Craving Automated Scale for substance” (CAS-S), a newly developed questionnaire assessing craving and other components of automated addictive behavior.

• REC name

  Yorkshire & The Humber - Bradford Leeds Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  16/YH/0289

• Date of REC Opinion

  8 Jul 2016

• REC opinion

  Unfavourable Opinion