AUDADIS-IV Version lifetime AD (hereafter referred to as AD) diagnoses required that subjects meet 3 or more of the 7 DSM-IV dependence criteria in the last 12 months or during any previous 12-month period. For prior diagnoses of AD, 3 or more criteria must have occurred within a 1-year period following the DSM-IV clustering criterion. The reliability of the AUDADIS-IV alcohol diagnoses is documented in clinical and general population samples (Grant et al., 2003b; Hasin et al., 1997) with test–retest reliability ranging from good to excellent (K = 0.70 to 0.84). Convergent, discriminant, and construct validity of AUDADISIV dependence criteria and diagnoses are good to excellent (Hasin et al., 2003) and included the World Health Organization/National Institutes of Health International Study on Reliability and Validity (Nelson et al., 1999), where clinical reappraisals documented good validity of DSM-IV AD diagnoses (K = 0.60 to 0.76).
