Alexithymia in male alcoholics: study in a Turkish sample
| Autor: | Ozcan, Uzun, Alpay, Ates, Adnan, Cansever, Aytekin, Ozsahin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Male Turkish population medicine.medical_specialty Turkey lcsh:RC435-571 Turkish media_common.quotation_subject Severity of Illness Index Toronto Alexithymia Scale Alexithymia lcsh:Psychiatry Surveys and Questionnaires Severity of illness Prevalence medicine Humans Personality Affective Symptoms Psychiatry media_common medicine.diagnostic_test Addiction Alcohol dependence medicine.disease language.human_language Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Alcoholism Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology language Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol 44, Iss 4, Pp 349-352 (2003) |
| ISSN: | 0010-440X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0010-440x(03)00009-9 |
| Popis: | The prevalence of alexithymia among male alcoholic cases in a clinical sample from the Turkish population and the relationship between alexithymia and clinical characteristics of alcoholics were studied. Participants were 56 males with alcohol dependence. Alcohol dependence was diagnosed by means of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-I), Turkish version. Alexithymia was screened using the 20-item version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). Almost 42% of the patients with alcoholism had a score greater than 60 on the TAS-20, and were therefore considered as alexithymic. The alexithymic patients were found to have a lower level of education and poor economic status. In addition, the severity of alcoholism and duration of alcohol use has been shown to be associated with alexithymia. These results suggest that there was a strong connection between alexithymia and alcoholism. However, the prevalence of alexithymia was not different in Turkish alcoholic men compared with Western alcoholic men. |
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