PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF ALCOHOLICS DROPPING OUT OF TREATMENT

Twenty seven male alcoholics were prospectively studied to find out the characteristics of those who drop out soon after discharge from the hospital. Seven persons, failed to make a single visit over a six-month period, and were termed ‘dropouts’. On admission, after detoxification, all 27 patients...

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Autores principales: Rao, Kiran, Ray, Rajat, Vithayathil, Empee, Nagalakshmi, S.V.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1984
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21966017
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author Rao, Kiran
Ray, Rajat
Vithayathil, Empee
Nagalakshmi, S.V.
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description Twenty seven male alcoholics were prospectively studied to find out the characteristics of those who drop out soon after discharge from the hospital. Seven persons, failed to make a single visit over a six-month period, and were termed ‘dropouts’. On admission, after detoxification, all 27 patients were individually administered, the following tests: (1) Bhatia's Performance Test of Intelligence (2) Multiphasic Questionnaire (3) Internal–External Locus of Control Scale and (4) 16 P. F. Questionnaire (Form C). Dropouts did not differ from the completers on any of the socio-demographic or clinical variables. Two personality characteristics significantly differentiated the dropouts from the completers.
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spelling pubmed-30112042011-10-02 PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF ALCOHOLICS DROPPING OUT OF TREATMENT Rao, Kiran Ray, Rajat Vithayathil, Empee Nagalakshmi, S.V. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Twenty seven male alcoholics were prospectively studied to find out the characteristics of those who drop out soon after discharge from the hospital. Seven persons, failed to make a single visit over a six-month period, and were termed ‘dropouts’. On admission, after detoxification, all 27 patients were individually administered, the following tests: (1) Bhatia's Performance Test of Intelligence (2) Multiphasic Questionnaire (3) Internal–External Locus of Control Scale and (4) 16 P. F. Questionnaire (Form C). Dropouts did not differ from the completers on any of the socio-demographic or clinical variables. Two personality characteristics significantly differentiated the dropouts from the completers. Medknow Publications 1984 /pmc/articles/PMC3011204/ /pubmed/21966017 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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Rao, Kiran
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PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF ALCOHOLICS DROPPING OUT OF TREATMENT
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title_full PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF ALCOHOLICS DROPPING OUT OF TREATMENT
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title_full_unstemmed PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF ALCOHOLICS DROPPING OUT OF TREATMENT
title_short PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF ALCOHOLICS DROPPING OUT OF TREATMENT
title_sort personality characteristics of alcoholics dropping out of treatment
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21966017
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