ALCOHOLISM: A LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF PARTICIPANTS IN AN ALCOHOL TREATMENT PROGRAMME
| Autor: | Graham Dunn, C. J. Latham, A. D. Thomson, G. K. Shaw, S. Waller |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Alcohol Drinking Temperance media_common.quotation_subject Poison control Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Injury prevention Humans Medicine Psychiatry media_common business.industry Alcohol dependence Self-esteem Social Support Human factors and ergonomics General Medicine Neuroticism Self Concept Alcoholism Treatment Outcome Female Substance Abuse Treatment Centers business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Alcohol and Alcoholism. 32:527-535 |
| ISSN: | 1464-3502 0735-0414 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.alcalc.a008288 |
| Popis: | This paper reports the results of a long-term follow-up study of 112 alcoholic patients admitted to an intensive 1-month residential programme. Outcomes at the 6-month and 1-year stages were reported in an earlier paper (G. K. Shaw et al. (1990) British Journal of Psychiatry 157, 190-196). The length of the follow-up period in this study was an average of 9 years. Eighteen patients had died before the long-term follow-up stage, and of the remaining 94 a total of 60 patients were followed up. This study shows that major improvements on social, psychological and drinking behaviour measures, made at 6 months and 1 year follow-up, were, on the whole, maintained and there was a progressive improvement on most variables at each follow-up stage. Major improvements were achieved by those patients whose drinking was categorized as 'abstinent', 'controlled' and 'improved'. The proportion of patients categorized as 'unchanged' dropped from 43% at 6 months to 33% at 1 year and to 15% at 9 years. By the 1-year follow-up stage, the unchanged group showed deterioration on psychological variables such as neuroticism, self-esteem and satisfaction with life situations, continued to make use of health service resources, and the high level of alcohol-relat ed physical and social complications remained unchanged. This group had similar results at long-term follow-up with the exception of neuroticism, which was significantly lower in all drinking categories. |
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