The prevalence of endorsement for each AUD symptom and the tetrachoric correlations among all items are presented in Table 1. Approximately 66.49% (n = 1716) of participants met the diagnostic symptoms for DSM-5 AUD. Phenotypic tetrachoric correlations were high, indicating that symptoms frequently co-occur, and ranged from 0.73 – 0.91 (with the lowest correlations being 0.73 between craving and two criteria: tolerance and ‘Taking alcohol in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended’).
