[Comparative analysis of a population hospitalized for alcohol "dependence" and "abuse" with other similar alcoholic populations: a study of 1,300 patients]. / Análisis comparativo de una población hospitalizada por "dependencia" y "abuso" del alcohol con otras poblaciones alcohólicas similares: un estudio de 1.300 pacientes.

The authors refer on introduction to a former research where they describe results from 150 inpatients diagnosed of "Alcohol Dependence" and "Alcohol Abuse Syndromes" admitted during 1980-1984 at the Psychiatry Department of University Hospital of Valladolid. A comparison of epidemiologic, clinic, diagnostic and care patients patterns is made versus three other studies , where similar groups of alcoholic patients are studied through 47 variables. The first investigation reports findings from 613 alcoholic out patients demanding psychiatric care at University Hospital in Valladolid. The second one study 134 alcoholic patients (70% outpatients and 30% inpatients) at the Hospital General in Burgos. The last one reports finding from 403 alcoholic inpatients at the Psychiatric Service of "Ramón y Cajal" Hospital of Madrid. A group of 130 patients are studied as a whole, 1,127 males (86.89%) and 173 females (13.3%). Fifty per cent of the sample (n = 653) were inpatients and the remainder were outpatients; 28.30% (n = 368) were diagnosed by means of CIE-8a; 61.38% (n = 798) by means of CIE-9a; and 10.30 by DSM-III diagnostic criteria. The variables evaluated were population, age, sex, civil state, place of birth, place of living, level of education, profession, work capability, economical status and current social class, working and marriage adaptation, place composition, first work age, emigration, family psychiatric problems, affective deprivation, personal background, former treatment for drinking problems, start of drinking average age, abuse average time, kind of drinking, drinking day average amount, motive of abuse increments, consultation motive, somatic and psychiatric diagnoses, others drugs consultations, TAC and EEG results, first pharmacologic treatment, inpatient average time, and later hospitalizations. A table, a graphic and 83 bibliographic quotations, part of which belong to a former work, are included.

[Description of patients diagnosed with "alcohol dependence syndrome" and "alcohol abuse" according to the C.I.E.-9a criteria of the W.H.O. at a psychiatric hospitalization service]. / Descripción de los pacientes diagnosticados de "sindrome de dependencia del alcohol" y "abuso del alcohol", según criterios C.I.E.-9.a de la O.M.S., en un servicio de hospitalización psiquiátrica.

The authors make an introduction where they describe several problems found in the alcoholic diseases researches. The most important of them are related to the "alcoholic case" concept. After this the authors report several epidemiological facts about the alcoholic diseases and disorders in Castilla-León and Madrid. Then a retrospective analysis of inpatients psychiatric records from the Psychiatry Department of Valladolid's University Hospital between 1980 to 1984 (N = 1.259) is made. 252 (20.01%) of them suffered an alcoholic disorders, following the I.C.D.-9th criteria psychoses alcoholic were 102 (8.10%) and they were excluded. However "Alcohol dependence" with 128 cases (10.17%) and "Alcohol Abuse Syndromes" with 22 cases (1.75%) were studied deeply, being 150 cases--120 males (80%) and 30 females (20%)--evaluated. Every diagnostic group was analysed in a distinct way through 41 epidemiological, clinical, diagnostic and medical care variables. These two groups and their differences and similarities between them are reported. The main profile is a male patient, 43 years old, married, urban life, blue collar worker, unskilled work, primary studies, bad economic level, marriage and working maladapted, clinical admitted through the Emergency Service, with an alcoholism 24 years old and intake of 234 grs. alcohol/day, with former treatment of minor tranquilizers (B.D.Z.) and at last is readmitted by alcoholic disease of disorder or a different psychiatric disease or disorders (I.C.D.-9.a or D.S.M.-III) in a 37.5% and 16.41% respectively.

[A comparative analysis of a hospitalized population because of alcohol "dependence" or "abuse" and other similar alcoholic populations: a study of 1300 patients]. / Análisis comparativo de una población hospitalizada por "dependencia" y "abuso" del alcohol con otras poblaciones alcohólicas similares: un estudio de 1.300 pacientes.

The authors refer on introduction to a former research where they describe results from 150 inpatients diagnosed of "Alcohol Dependence" and "Alcohol Abuse Syndromes" admitted during 1980-1984 at the Psychiatry Department of University Hospital of Valladolid. A comparison of epidemiologic, clinic, diagnostic and care patients patterns is made versus three others researches, where similar groups of alcoholic patients are studied through 47 variables. The first ++ investigation reports findings from 613 alcoholic out patients demanding psychiatric care at University Hospital in Valladolid. The second one study 134 alcoholic patients (70% out patients and 30% in patients) at the Hospital General in Burgos. The last one reports finding from 403 alcoholic in patients at the Psychiatric Service of "Ramon y Cajal" Hospital of Madrid. A group of 130 patients are studied as a whole, 1127 males (86.89%) and 173 females (13.3%). Fifty per cent of the simple (n = 653) were in-patient and the remainder were out-patients; 28.30% (n = 368) were diagnosed by means of CIE-8 , 61.38% (n = 798) by means of CIE-9 and 10.30 by DSM-III diagnostic criteria. The variables evaluated were population, age, sex, civil state, place of birth, place of living, level of education, profession, work capability, economical status and current social class, working and marriage adaptation, place composition, first work age, emigration, family psychiatric problems, affective deprivation, personal background, former treatment for drinking problems, start of drinking average age, abuse average time, kind of drinking, drinking day average amount, motive of abuse increments, consultation motive, somatic and psychiatric diagnoses, other drug consumptions, TAC and EEG results, first pharmacologic treatment, in-patient average time, and later hospitalisations. A table, a graphic, and 83 bibliographic quotations, part of which belong to a former work, are included.

[The EEG, CAT and alcoholism]. / E.E.G., T.A.C. y alcoholismo.

The authors made a retrospective study of 355 patients with the diagnosis of "Dependence" (n = 324) and "Abuse" (n = 31) of alcohol. 205 of them were outpatients and 150 inpatients from the Medical Psychological and Psychiatric Department of the Clinical University Hospital in Valladolid, since 1980 to 1984. It's studied demand of psychiatric services in the alcoholic population, the sex (87.88% of men and 12.11% of women) the mean age (about 42 years in men and 37 years in women), the diagnosis of alcoholism ("Dependence" or "Abuse") and the characteristics of them ("Outpatients" or "Inpatients"). Later, they reviewed two usual instrumental tests in Psychiatry: The E.E.G., which was made in 261 patients (normal in 85%) and the C.A.T., made in 13 cases, with cerebral atrophy in the 61%. At last, a historical review was made about these instrumental tests in the alcoholic disease, and the authors propose, too, two decision trees for the differential diagnosis and the treatment of alcoholic convulsions. The study presented, also, 9 Tables, 2 Figures and 54 references.

[Epidemiologic study of alcoholism by a university section and a department of psychiatry from 1969 to 1985]. / Contribucíon al estudio epidemiológico del alcoholismo en una cátedra y departamento de psiquiatría desde 1969 hasta 1985.

The author reviews the census of outpatients in a Psychiatric Department of a General Hospital between 1969 and 1985, finding 12,241 cases. Following the first selection, 644 patients were found to be diagnosed with alcoholic disorder, at least, typified in the ICD-8 or ICD-9 of the O.M.S. Later, 31 cases were rejected due to insufficient information. A protocol of investigation was elaborated to apply retrospectively and establish a descriptive study. The epidemiological and clinical profile of the patients showed a 5% frequency of alcoholic disorder, a male patient (93.96%), an average age of 40, primary studies (65.74%), unskilled laborer (69.65%), starting to drink between the age of 15-19 (41.59%), wine drinker (65.74%), with an average intake of 244 g, without a diagnosis related to alcoholic psychoses (83%), discontinues the consultation after the first interview (38%), and continues drinking in the last consultation carried out, in 57.91% of the cases.