| Characteristic | GAIN-SS | GAIN-Q3 | GAIN-I | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Short screener for general population and triage | ⚫ | ||
| Brief assessment for substance use, mental health, justice settings, and other behavioral health settings | ⚫ | |||
| Comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessment for Substance Use Treatment settings | ⚫ | |||
| Follow-up versions available | ⚫ | ⚫ | ⚫ | |
| Alternative versions to shorten (S) and/or support motivational interviewing (MI) | SMI | SMI | ||
| Logistics | Hours to train on administration | 1 | 12 | 40 |
| Typical number of weeks to certify based on iterations of digital recording and written feedback | 1 | 6 | 13 | |
| Average minutes to administer | 5 | 15-45 | 90-120 | |
| Pages in hard copy of instrument | 2 | 26 | 113 | |
| Available in English (E), French (F), Portuguese (P), Spanish (S), and Other (O) languages | EFSPO | ES | EFSP | |
| Administration on paper or computer, self or staff administered | ⚫ | ⚫ | ⚫ | |
| Ability to hide/skip items via templates or add items via supplemental trailers* | ⚫ | ⚫ | ⚫ | |
| Software to support administration, scoring, validity checks, tabular and clinical narrative reports, change over time reports, export to analytic files, and established syntax files | ⚫ | ⚫ | ⚫ | |
| Clinical Decision Support System produces reports which are based on expert and practitioner consensus panels and statistical analyses | ⚫ | ⚫ | ⚫ | |
| Support for adaptation to deal with specific cultures, subpopulations or context* | ⚫ | ⚫ | ⚫ | |
| Reliability, Validity, Psychometrics, Detailed Norms and differential item functioning by gender, race, age and primary substance | ⚫ | ⚫ | ⚫ | |
| Contents | Substance use, internalizing and mental health, and crime/violence, recency and breadth of problems | ⚫ | ⚫ | ⚫ |
| School, work, health, stress/victimization, HIV risk behaviors, recency and days of problems/service utilization, cost of service utilization, quality of life, life satisfaction, more demographics | ⚫ | ⚫ | ||
| More detailed measures of substance use, subscales for types of problems, diagnosis to DSM-V, treatment planning, needs/request, ASAM placement dimensions, demographics, access to care, environmental risk, strengths, social support, spirituality, self help engagement, staff ratings, and lifetime service utilization | ⚫ |
* May involve additional costs depending on the extent of changes/adaptations
