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APA writing assignment for nursing assessment tools.
our topic is “Cage Questionnaire”

Directions are included in the files please write 3-5 pages in APA format with simple terms.

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CAGE Questionnaire: A Nursing Assessment Tool for Alcohol Use Disorder

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NUR2180 – Nursing Assessment
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Introduction
The questionnaire being reviewed has been renowned for its impartiality and efficiency in
helping to detect people in need of interventions from AUD. Healthcare professionals utilize this
screening developed in the early 1980s to detect alcohol-related problems in patients. Proper
screening for alcohol dependence before dependency is necessary because dependency leads to
dangerous health problems regarding liver functionality and cardiovascular status and emotional
status. This paper addresses background and development of the CAGE Questionnaire before
moving to an analysis of its scoring systems and target populations and verification of reliability
and validity facts in addition to consideration of ethical factors.
Overview of the CAGE Questionnaire
The CAGE questionnaire came to be as an invention of Dr. John Ewing in 1984. He at
the time fashioned it to help in the screening of individuals for alcohol dependency (Agnoli et al.,
2022). All items in the CAGE screening can be captured in an acronym.
Institutions that offer interventions to people looking forward to quitting alcohol
dependence have embraced the questionnaire. The United Kingdom aside from the United States
and Canada with several other countries have embraced this screening tool b...

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