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© 1998 Medical Council on Alcohol

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IMPROVEMENT IN ALCOHOLICS MEASURED USING THE GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE

MELCHIOR J. A. J. M. HOES*, JOHAN H. B. ZEIJPVELD and MAGGY RUIJGROK

Department of Psychiatry, Ziekenhuis Rivierenland P.O. Box 6024, NL-4000HA Tiel, The Netherlands

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed

Received 15 December 1997; first review notified 16 February 1998; accepted 3 March 1998

Over a 1-year study period all patients admitted to the department of psychiatry in a general hospital were asked to complete the General Health Questionnaire at admission, discharge, and first polyclinic (outpatient) follow-up contact. Seventeen per cent of admissions were alcoholics. Alcoholics improved rapidly after admission to the psychiatric department. This improvement was comparable to that of all the (psychiatric) patients admitted and continued after discharge.


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