Depressive symptoms among native American alcoholics at the time of a 10-year follow-up.
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J Neider
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Predicting treatment outcome after ten years among American Indian alcoholics.
Forty-five American Indian alcoholics were intensively studied in 1970-1971. In addition to the usual demographic characteristics, research scales included Alcoholism History Scale, Alcohol Withdrawal Scale, Indian Culture Affiliation Scale, Social Competence Scale, Legal Problems Scale, Psychiatric Problems Scale, Liver Dysfunction Scale, Malnutrition Scale, and Abnormal Laboratory Screening Scale. These findings in 1970-1971 were then correlated with a four-item outcome rating obtained in 1980-1981. Better outcome was associated with less parental loss, ever having been married, compliance with treatment recommendations, and having predominantly Indian rather than non-Indian friends. Women alcoholics were unlikely to deteriorate and still survive, although this was the most frequent pattern among the men. Higher Indian Culture Affiliation and more severe Liver Dysfunction in 1970-1971 were correlated with better outcome in 1980-1981. Possible explanations for these findings are considered.
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Alcoholism indicators: nonreliability of events partially related to alcohol abuse.
Certain events partially associated with alcohol abuse (e.g., all hepatic cirrhosis) as well as those wholly associated with alcohol abuse (e.g., alcoholic cirrhosis) have been used to assess changes in alcoholism rates over time. In this paper, events partially associated with alcohol abuse are compared with events wholly correlated with alcohol abuse. Location and time of the study was the state of Minnesota from 1965 to 1977. Taken as a whole, the partially related events fail to show an increase in alcoholism while the wholly related events point to an increase. The literature on these alcohol-related events is reviewed, and theories for the discrepancies between partially and wholly related events are offered.
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