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Assaultive alcoholics 20 years later
Author(s) -
Berglund M.,
Tunving K.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1985.tb01264.x
Subject(s) - injury prevention , poison control , psychiatry , suicide prevention , population , psychology , occupational safety and health , medicine , medical emergency , environmental health , pathology
– In a consecutive series of 257 alcoholics from an out‐patient department 53 were judged as assaultive and 38 as suicidally inclined at the clinical examination 20 years ago. At the follow‐up the assaultive alcoholics had a 3.3 times increased mortality rate, the suicidally inclined 1.9 times and the others 1.7 times compared with the general population. The assaultive alcoholics had an increased rate of suicides, intoxications and other alcohol‐related deaths compared with other alcoholics. Repealed assaultive behaviour was uncommon. It is concluded that a skilled psychiatric evaluation of assaultive behaviour in alcoholism has an important predictive value.