The participants were asked to fill out the AUDIT, a self‐report questionnaire used in the health care to identify individuals with hazardous and harmful patterns of alcohol consumption (Babor et al. 2001). It consists of 10 questions with a 5‐ and 3‐point response format. The response is scored to give a total AUDIT score ranging from 0 to 40. According to the World Health Organization, an AUDIT score of ≥ 16 or above represents a high level of alcohol problems, whereas an AUDIT score of ≤ 1 is reported by alcohol abstainers (Babor et al. 2001).
