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Axis I and Axis II Comorbidity Among Alcohol‐Disordered Men in a Sample of Vietnam‐Era Veterans
Author(s) -
Scheidt Douglas M.,
Windle Michael
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1521-0391.1994.tb00382.x
Subject(s) - comorbidity , sample (material) , medicine , demography , psychology , psychiatry , physics , sociology , thermodynamics
The authors examine the scope of alcoholic comorbidity by evaluating the full range of coexisting Axis II personality disorders (PDs) in conjunction with selected Axis I disorders. Prevalence data are reported for a large sample of male, Vietnam‐era military veterans. Higher rates of PD were found among alcohol‐disordered individuals and those with Axis I disorders when compared with no‐diagnosis and other Axis I‐diagnosed control groups. The significance of PD among alcohol‐disordered subjects was demonstrated further by a pattern of decrements in measures of adaptive functioning related to alcoholism, other Axis I, and Axis II diagnoses. Less than one‐third of the alcohol‐disordered subjects in this sample were without a coexisting Axis I or Axis II disorder.