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Recruitment to Alcohol Treatment: a comparison between male and female problem drinkers recruited to treatment in two different ways
Author(s) -
DUCKERT FANNY
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1988.tb00470.x
Subject(s) - medicine , alcohol consumption , outpatient clinic , psychiatry , population , alcohol , environmental health , biochemistry , chemistry
Summary This study looks at similarities and differences between four groups of problem drinkers. The subjects were 143 men and 39 women, inpatients of an alcoholism treatment clinic; and 84 male and 51 female participants in an outpatient treatment research project at The National Institute of Alcohol Research in Oslo, Norway. The latter were recruited by newspaper advertisements. The results showed that the outpatients when entering the study, were in a better socio‐economic situation, were better educated and had higher job status than the inpatients. The outpatients had a lower alcohol consumption, a less severe drinking pattern, and had fewer alcohol‐related treatment experiences. The differences between subjects seemed to be more pronounced for the women. However, the length of problem drinking and the age of the subjects were the same for inpatients and outpatients. The outpatients did not appear to be early problem drinkers, but may have been recruited from a different segment of the population of problem drinkers, namely with more moderate drinking problems. This finding may have therapeutic and prognostic significance.