PMID: 8984521Sep 1, 1996Paper

The typological analysis of males with alcohol dependence disorder

Psychiatria polska
J Hauser, M Zakrzewska

Abstract

The aim of our study was the typological analysis of male alcoholics that was conducted on the basis of the K-means cluster analysis. 296 hospitalized men were examined after a duration of drinking. The results of the statistical analysis let us isolate two and then three types of alcoholics. When dividing the examined into two clusters it appeared that those who belonged to the 1st type had shorter history of addiction, became dependent later and in their case coexistence of psychiatric disorders, somatic diseases and the genetic loading for alcoholism were found less frequently than those from the 2nd type. Thus, early age of dependence onset was connected with the family alcoholism and worse clinical course-i.e.-co-occurrence of psychiatric disorders and somatic diseases. When dividing the patients into three clusters the following variables that differentiate the examined from three types of alcoholics were found: (a)-1st type: late age of dependence onset, rare load of family alcoholism, psychiatric disorders, somatic diseases; (b)-2nd and 3rd type: early age of dependence onset, the load of family-alcoholism, co-occurrence of psychiatric disorders and somatic diseases; (c)-3rd type: patients from the 3rd type were depende...Continue Reading

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