A POSSIBLE WAY TO MOTIVATE AMBIVALENT PATIENTS TO UNDERGO DETOXIFICATION | Zendy

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A POSSIBLE WAY TO MOTIVATE AMBIVALENT PATIENTS TO UNDERGO DETOXIFICATION

Author(s) -

Nicolas Bertholet,

JeanBernard Daeppen

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

alcohol and alcoholism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 1464-3502

pISSN - 0735-0414

DOI - 10.1093/alcalc/agh239

Subject(s) - detoxification (alternative medicine) , ambivalence , quality of life (healthcare) , medicine , randomized controlled trial , perception , psychology , psychiatry , alternative medicine , nursing , surgery , social psychology , neuroscience , pathology

( Received 12 July 2005; first review notified 15 August 2005; in final revised form 19 September 2005; accepted 22 October 2005)Health-related quality-of-life and well-being are two important outcome measures for inpatients attending alcohol treatment programs. Rapid improvement in well-being and health related quality-of-life may be a possible way to motivate ambivalent patients to undergo detoxification.The present letter is an ancillary report of a randomized controlled trial on pharmacological management of alcohol withdrawal. It focuses on changes in patients' perception of well-being and health-related quality-of-life over the first …

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