THE EVALUATION OF A TREATMENT PROGRAMME FOR ALCOHOLICS: A FOLLOW‐UP STUDY

A cohort of 54 mothers with puerperal psychoses admitted between 1965 and 1969 to a joint mother and baby short stay treatment programme is reported with a follow-up at the end of 1973. The outcomes indicate that this treatment routine is as satisfactory as other programmes. Those who, for various reasons, did not complete the joint programme of treatment did not do so well.

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Ten years after – the post-treatment course of alcoholism

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1017/s0924933800001395 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 95-100 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

G Längle ◽

K Mann ◽

G Mundle ◽

HW Schied

Keyword(s):

Post Treatment ◽

Patient Treatment ◽

Treatment Programme ◽

Follow Up Study ◽

Long Term Follow Up ◽

History Of ◽

Long Term Studies ◽

Alcohol Dependent

SummaryThe natural history of alcoholism is still a matter of debate. Very few studies have addressed the issue of the post-treatment course longitudinally. We present the results of a long-term follow-up study in ninety-six alcohol dependent patients who were treated in a combined in-patient and out-patient treatment programme. Two, five and ten years after the initial treatment in 1976, they were re-investigated. Ninety-four percent of the patients could be located ten years after treatment. Fifty-one percent were abstinent, 22% were deceased, 14% of the patients’ drinking was unchanged and 7% had improved. This outcome is discussed and compared with the results of other long-term studies.

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Alcoholism: a Follow-up Study of Participants in an Alcohol Treatment Programme

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.157.2.190 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 157 (2) ◽

pp. 190-196 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

G. K. Shaw ◽

Seta Waller ◽

Sine McDougall ◽

Jennie Macgarvie ◽

Graham Dunn

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Treatment ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Drinking Behaviour ◽

Social Stability ◽

Treatment Programme ◽

Follow Up Study ◽

Socially Disadvantaged ◽

Drinking Status ◽

One Year

One hundred and twelve alcoholic patients treated by an intensive one-month residential programme were followed up for one year. As a group, they were socially disadvantaged and highly dependent on alcohol. Outcome of treatment was assessed at six months and one year following discharge by multiple measures which included assessments of drinking behaviour, measurements of social stability, neuroticism and self-esteem, and self-ratings of satisfaction with important aspects of day-to-day living. During the first six months following treatment, 37% were abstinent or drinking in controlled fashion; during the second six months, 53% achieved this status. Improvement in drinking status was positively related to improvements in all other outcome variables.

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Multi-impulsive bulimia: Description of an inpatient eclectic treatment programme and a pilot follow-up study of its efficacy

European Eating Disorders Review ◽

10.1002/erv.2400010105 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 22-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

J. Hubert Lacey ◽

Timothy R. C. Read

Keyword(s):

Treatment Programme ◽

Follow Up Study

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ALCOHOLISM: A LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF PARTICIPANTS IN AN ALCOHOL TREATMENT PROGRAMME

Alcohol and Alcoholism ◽

10.1093/oxfordjournals.alcalc.a008288 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 527-535 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

G. K. SHAW ◽

S. WALLER ◽

C. J. LATHAM ◽

G. DUNN ◽

A. D. THOMSON

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Treatment ◽

Treatment Programme ◽

Follow Up Study ◽

Long Term Follow Up

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Electron Microscopy of Human Gallstones

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100065523 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 29 ◽

pp. 296-297

Author(s):

C. Wolpers ◽

R. Blaschke

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Bile Pigment ◽

X Ray Diffraction ◽

Triclinic Crystal System ◽

X Ray ◽

Follow Up Study ◽

Infra Red ◽

Main Components

Scanning microscopy was used to study the surface of human gallstones and the surface of fractures. The specimens were obtained by operation, washed with water, dried at room temperature and shadowcasted with carbon and aluminum. Most of the specimens belong to patients from a series of X-ray follow-up study, examined during the last twenty years. So it was possible to evaluate approximately the age of these gallstones and to get information on the intensity of growing and solving.Cholesterol, a group of bile pigment substances and different salts of calcium, are the main components of human gallstones. By X-ray diffraction technique, infra-red spectroscopy and by chemical analysis it was demonstrated that all three components can be found in any gallstone. In the presence of water cholesterol crystallizes in pane-like plates of the triclinic crystal system.

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