Brief Report: Excessive alcohol use negatively affects the course of adolescent depression: one year naturalistic follow-up study
| Autor: | Titta Ruuttu, Virpi Tuisku, Mirjami Pelkonen, Mauri Marttunen, Olli Kiviruusu, Linnea Karlsson, Esa Meririnne |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Social Psychology Adolescent Alcohol Drinking media_common.quotation_subject Population Alcohol abuse Binge drinking Comorbidity Severity of Illness Index Recurrence Surveys and Questionnaires Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Psychiatry education Depression (differential diagnoses) media_common education.field_of_study Depressive Disorder Abstinence medicine.disease Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Psychology Psychosocial Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Journal of adolescence. 33(1) |
| ISSN: | 1095-9254 |
| Popis: | The impact of alcohol use on the course of adolescent depression over one-year was investigated by following 197 consecutive adolescent outpatients with unipolar depression in a naturalistic treatment setting. Their baseline alcohol consumption was categorized in three groups: excessive use (defined as weekly drunkenness), regular use (monthly use, not weekly drunkenness), and no/occasional use (abstinence/less than monthly use). During the monthly BDI follow-up, the excessive users achieved remission less frequently, and after one year, had poorer psychosocial functioning than the no/occasional users. In conclusion, excessive alcohol use negatively affects the course of adolescent depression and psychosocial functioning. Weekly drunkenness seems to be of predictive value and this can be examined with a few simple questions. Means of reducing alcohol consumption among depressed adolescents are worth further investigations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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