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| Can the Drinking Problem Index provide valuable therapeutic information for recovering alcoholic adults? | | Author(s) | K Kopera-Frye, R Wiscott, H L Sterns |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 3, no 3, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 246-256 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Alcoholism ; Screening ; Therapeutics ; Older people ; Middle aged ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Drinking Problems Index (DPI) is a 17-item inventory assessing the frequency of alcohol-related problems, and was created to screen for middle-aged and older problem drinkers in the community. This study investigated the use of the DPI with middle-aged and older adults in treatment for alcohol abuse. Seventy-one participants with a primary diagnosis of alcohol dependence were individually administered the DPI along with additional measures of psychosocial functioning. Results showed that recovering alcoholic adults endorsed a similar pattern of adverse consequences as compared to the normative group, but at notably higher frequencies. Further, the older adult sub-group endorsed fewer total items on the DPI relative to the middle-aged sub-group, with a differential pattern of frequent items evident. Significant relationships were observed between the DPI and age, education, psychological distress, history of prior drug use and number of prior treatments for alcohol use. The findings suggest that the DPI may be useful as a means of suggesting possible individualised therapeutic interventions. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991005210 A |
| Classmark | ETA: 3V: LL: B: SE: 7T |
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