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The Contribution of Problem Drinking to the Level of Psychiatric Morbidity in the General Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. Ann Schofield
M. Ann Schofield*
Affiliation:
St Stephen's Hospital, Sarsfieldscourt, Glanmire, Co. York, Republic of Ireland
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Abstract

Of 331 patients admitted to a general hospital to whom the CAGE questionnaire was administered, those who scored 2 or more for alcoholism scored higher on a number of measures of psychiatric morbidity than those with a CAGE score of O. Those patients who scored 1 showed less psychiatric morbidity than those who scored 0. Among the male patients who scored at least one question positively, those who had abstained from alcohol for at least a year showed higher levels of psychiatric morbidity than those still drinking.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 2 , August 1989 , pp. 229 - 232
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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