생물정신의학 (Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry)
- 제6권1호
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- Pages.102-110
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- 1999
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- 1225-8709(pISSN)
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- 2005-7571(eISSN)
한국에서 노인용 미시간주정의존선별검사의 적용을 위한 예비연구
A Preliminary Study for the Application of Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test-Geriatric Version in Korea
- Cheon, Jin-Sook (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kosin University, School of Medicine) ;
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Oh, Byoung-Hoon
(Department of Neuropsychiatry, Yonsei University, Medical College) ;
- Choi, Young-Tai (Department of Psychiatry, Pusan Dong In Hospital)
- 발행 : 1999.06.25
초록
Objectives : The alcohol dependence in elderly people has been prevalent because of increase in geriatric population. However, it is difficult to find out alcohol dependence in the aged, because they have less specific clinical features as compared with adult alcoholics. The aims of this study were to screen alcohol dependence among elderly Koreans and to know the clinical characteristics of Korean delerly alcoholics. Methods : The questionnaires translated into Korean such as Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test(MAST-K), the Brief MAST and the MAST-Geriatirc Version (MAST-KG) were used to screen alcohol dependence in the elderly alcoholic inpatients aged over 60(N=43), adult alcoholic inpatients within 20-59 Yrs of age(N=60), which were compared with age matched normal healthy aged(N=18) or adult controls(N=45). The demographic data such as sex, age, education, occupation, socioeconomic status, marital status, numbers of children, dwelling and religion as well as alcohol history such as duration of alcohol drinking, onset age, family history, impulsivity, somatic illness and motivation were also obtained to identify characteristic features of Korean aged alcoholics by structured interviews. Results : 1) The aged alcoholics had the charateristic features of more in males, lower age, low education levels, more in blue-collar workers, lower socioeconomic class, more in single, few babies, more living alone, having no religion without statistical significance. 2) The onset age of alcohol dependence was significantly higher in the aged alcoholics(
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