Open AccessSeverity of alcoholism in Indian males: Correlation with age of onset and family history of alcoholism
Author(s) -
Pradeep R Johnson,
Saira Banu,
Ashok Mysore
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.70977
Subject(s) - family history , age of onset , alcohol dependence , psychiatry , analysis of variance , psychology , medicine , clinical psychology , demography , alcohol , disease , biochemistry , chemistry , sociology
Family History of Alcoholism and earlier Age of Onset are found to predict Severity of alcoholism. Previous Indian studies in this regard have methodological issues related to the definition of alcoholism and reliability of information obtained.