A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF TREATMENT OUTCOME IN ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE FROM A DEADDICTION CENTRE IN INDIA

A naturalistic, uncontrolled follow up study was carried out -in 60 cases of alcohol dependence syndrome diagnosed according to DSM-III-R at JIPMER.Pondicherry. At the end of one year, 32.5% of patients could he classified under abstinent and non prohlein drinker category. 35% continued to drink hut...

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Autores principales: Abraham, John, Chandrasekaran, R., Chitralekha, V.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584038
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description A naturalistic, uncontrolled follow up study was carried out -in 60 cases of alcohol dependence syndrome diagnosed according to DSM-III-R at JIPMER.Pondicherry. At the end of one year, 32.5% of patients could he classified under abstinent and non prohlein drinker category. 35% continued to drink hut showed improvement in social and occupational functioning. 32.5% remained in the unimproved group. None of the preireatment variables could differentiate patients with favourable outcome from those with unfavourable outcome. Duration of disulfiram use was strongly associated with a favourable outcome.
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spelling pubmed-29670762011-05-16 A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF TREATMENT OUTCOME IN ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE FROM A DEADDICTION CENTRE IN INDIA Abraham, John Chandrasekaran, R. Chitralekha, V. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A naturalistic, uncontrolled follow up study was carried out -in 60 cases of alcohol dependence syndrome diagnosed according to DSM-III-R at JIPMER.Pondicherry. At the end of one year, 32.5% of patients could he classified under abstinent and non prohlein drinker category. 35% continued to drink hut showed improvement in social and occupational functioning. 32.5% remained in the unimproved group. None of the preireatment variables could differentiate patients with favourable outcome from those with unfavourable outcome. Duration of disulfiram use was strongly associated with a favourable outcome. Medknow Publications 1997 /pmc/articles/PMC2967076/ /pubmed/21584038 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Abraham, John
Chandrasekaran, R.
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A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF TREATMENT OUTCOME IN ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE FROM A DEADDICTION CENTRE IN INDIA
title A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF TREATMENT OUTCOME IN ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE FROM A DEADDICTION CENTRE IN INDIA
title_full A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF TREATMENT OUTCOME IN ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE FROM A DEADDICTION CENTRE IN INDIA
title_fullStr A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF TREATMENT OUTCOME IN ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE FROM A DEADDICTION CENTRE IN INDIA
title_full_unstemmed A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF TREATMENT OUTCOME IN ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE FROM A DEADDICTION CENTRE IN INDIA
title_short A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF TREATMENT OUTCOME IN ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE FROM A DEADDICTION CENTRE IN INDIA
title_sort prospective study of treatment outcome in alcohol dependence from a deaddiction centre in india
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