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Behaviors & Attitudes Drinking & Driving Scale (BADDS)
The Behaviors & Attitudes Drinking and Driving Scale (BADDS) is a paper and pencil questionnaire used to assess risk for drinking and driving. The BADDS was first created by Drs. Jeremy Jewell and Stephen Hupp, faculty in the Department of Psychology at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The BADDS is currently copyrighted by Jewell & Hupp, LLP and published by the SASSI Institute. The BADDS is designed to assess DUI risk in adults primarily, though a current study examined its utility with adolescents of driving age. The BADDS takes approximately 10-15 minutes to complete, and is written at a 3rd grade reading level in order to be used with a broad range of reading ablities. The questionnaire itself is one page, double sided, and is accompanied by a scoring and interpretation form as well.

USES
The BADDS is a dual-use measure in that it can be used for an initial DUI risk assessment or post intervention. First, several states in the U.S. now require an assessment of DUI offenders pre-sentencing in order to inform the courts. The BADDS is able to be used in this situation, as well as other similar situations, when an initial assessment of future DUI risk is needed. However, it has also been designed and is established as a measure that can be used pre-post to an intervention in order to determine either the effectiveness of an intervention (such as a DUI education course given to a group) or to understand how an individual may have responded to an intervention (where ony individual score change is of interest).

DESCRIPTION
The BADDS is comprised of five subscales as well as unscored items that provide additional qualitative information. The first subscale of the BADDS is the Rationalizations for Drinking and Driving (RD) and consists of 12 items on a 5-point Likert Scale ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree". This subscale measures one's attitudes they endorse that rationalize drinking and driving. The second subscale of the BADDS is the Lenient Attitudes toward Drinking and Driving Scale (LA) and consists of 6 items on a 5-point Likert Scale ranging from "strongly agree" to strongly disagree. This subscale measures one's permissive social attitudes toward drinking and driving. The third subscale of the BADDS is the Likelihood of Drinking and Driving Scale (LD)and consists of 15 items that assess one's likelihood of drinking and driving with each item varying on the distance to be travelled and the amount of alcohol consumed. The fourth subscale of the BADDS is the Drinkg and Driving Behaviors Scale (DB) that consists of two fill-in-the-blank items. The fifth subscale of the BADDS is the Riding Behaviors with a Drinking Driver Scale (RB) that consists of two fill-in-the-blank items as well. For each subscale on the BADDS, the score derived places the person in one of three categories of risk (low, moderate, or high). Numerous other items on the BADDS measure other variables of interest as well, though these additional items are not scored per se.

RESEARCH
The BADDS has been utilized in several research studies published in peer-reviewed academic research journals,  and its psychometric properties have been well-established and are available in the User's Guide and Manual. For more information on the BADDS, visit The SASSI Institute.