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AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF ALCOHOLISM

The study was aimed to assess the prevalence of alcoholism in Madras City. A locality in North Madras was chosen and the houses were selected at random. The family members in these houses were assessed using the Michigan Alcoholism Screening test. 222 persons were thus studied. 16.67 of the males we...

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Autores principales: Ponnudrai, R., Jayakar, J., Raju, B., Pattamuthu, R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1991
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927497
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author Ponnudrai, R.
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description The study was aimed to assess the prevalence of alcoholism in Madras City. A locality in North Madras was chosen and the houses were selected at random. The family members in these houses were assessed using the Michigan Alcoholism Screening test. 222 persons were thus studied. 16.67 of the males were found to be suffering from alcoholism.
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spelling pubmed-29883042011-09-16 AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF ALCOHOLISM Ponnudrai, R. Jayakar, J. Raju, B. Pattamuthu, R. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The study was aimed to assess the prevalence of alcoholism in Madras City. A locality in North Madras was chosen and the houses were selected at random. The family members in these houses were assessed using the Michigan Alcoholism Screening test. 222 persons were thus studied. 16.67 of the males were found to be suffering from alcoholism. Medknow Publications 1991 /pmc/articles/PMC2988304/ /pubmed/21927497 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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Pattamuthu, R.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988304/
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