In this study the author had attempted to establish a correlationship between alcohol use and anxious or depressive trends among psychiatric inpatient in various psychiatric institutions and private psychiatric clinics in Korea. The sampling were performed through three stage clustered random sampling method, and questionnaires were finally applied to a total of 428 psychiatric inpatients including 249 men and 179 women, during the period from February 20, 1988 to March 20, 1988.
r =}- The data were processed by a SPSS program. Statistical methods employed in this study were a chi-square test, an analysis of variance, and a stepwise multiple regression analysis.
The major findings were as follows:
1. In analysis of the results according to the persernal history of the alcohol user, the rate of alcohol dependence was higher in men: in older age group, in service and agricultural workers, and in lower educational level_
2. More significant 5 kinds of pathological alcohol use patterns to predict alcohol use disorder were "the inability to cut down or stop drinking (predictability = 59.6 %)", "the continuation of drinking despite serious physical disorders (31.3%)", "an amnesic period for events occuring while intoxicated (30.9%)", "the need for daily use of alcohol for adequate functioning (28.3%)", and "the episodic consumption of alcohol lasting for one month (23.5%)". The significant alcohol related impairments were: "brief absense during driving (predictability = 20.1%)", "alcoholic panereatitis (11.1%)", "alcoholic hepatitis (10.97o)", and, "alcoholic gastritis (7.4%)".
3. Alcohol use in psychiatric inpatients were significantly related with their anxious or depressive trends, and their relative strengths were higher with anxious trends compared to depressive trends.
4. Among anxious trneds, somatic equivalent symtoms of anxiety such as gastrointestinal_ and genitourinary systoms were more closely related with alcohol use in psychiatric inpatients.
5. Among depressive trends, physiological disturbane of depression such as rhythmic disturbance were more closely related with alcohol use in psychiatric inpatients.
In conclusion, somato-physiological symtoms were more closely related with alcohol use than were psycological symtoms among anxious or depressive trends.
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