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Long Term Outcome in Working and Homemaking Alcoholic Women
Author(s) -
Herr Barbara M.,
Pettinati Helen M.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1984.tb05734.x
Subject(s) - addiction , outcome (game theory) , medicine , psychiatry , unit (ring theory) , psychology , term (time) , physics , mathematics education , mathematics , mathematical economics , quantum mechanics
Retrospective and outcome data were examined for 48 homemaking and 24 working women who came for treatment for alcoholism to an Addiction Recovery Unit at an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Outcome was assessed at the end of each of 4 years following treatment via personal interview by an experienced social worker and was corroborated by at least one source. At admission, the homemakers had been drinking for significantly more years (p < 0.05) than working women. Occupation at admission did not directly relate to outcome. However, for a small subgroup comprised of both homemaking and working women, a change in occupation following treatment was associated with improvement.