The authors surveyed the basic demographic data, diagnostic distribution, progression and frequency of alcohol drinking, associated physical diseases, patient's abstinence will, global assessment of functional scales, distribution of alcohol
withdrawal
symptoms for 144 admitted alcoholic patients, which had performed at the department of neuropsychiatry. Wonkwang University, College of medicine, from June 1, 1994 to May 31, 1995. They were divided into three groups, which were those without
alcohol
withdrawal symptoms(group A), those with alcohol withdrawal symptoms(group B) and those with alcohol withdrawal delirium(group C).
@ES The results were as follows:
@EN 1) The mean period of education showed a difference between group A(10.3 years) and other two groups, group B(7.8 years) and C(8.4 years)(p<0.05).
2) Daily alcohol drinking appeared 96% in group C, 80.3% in group B and 67.9% in group A (p<0.05).
3) Physical diseases associated with alcohol drinking appeared 72.0% in group C, 43.9% in group B and 34.0% in group A(p<0.05).
4) The abstinence will appeared 67.9% in group A, 56.1% in group B and 28.0% in group c (p<0.05).
5) Current GAF and past year highest GAF were 31.6±11.5, 71.6±9.1 in group A, 27.1±9.0, 66.9±10.8 in group B and 20.2±3.7, 65.6±8.0 in group C(p<0.01), (p<0.05).
The results impressed us that group C, assumed as the most severe group, had less educational period, more daily drinking, weaker abstinence will, lower general function, more associated physical diseases than other groups.
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