@article{ref1,
title="Lifetime and 6-month prevalence of abuse and dependence of alcohol in the Munich Follow-up Study",
journal="European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience",
year="1992",
author="Bronisch, Thomas and Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich",
volume="241",
number="5",
pages="273-282",
abstract="This paper reports lifetime and 6-month prevalence rates of alcohol abuse and dependence in West Germany. Assessment instruments are a modified German version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS), a fully standardized interview for the assessment of selected DSM-III diagnoses and the Munich Alcoholism Test (MALT). According to the DIS/DSM-III criteria, 13.0% of the adult general population (aged 25-64 years) were found to fulfill the lifetime criteria for alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence, or both; however, only 1.3% of all men and 0.9% of the women interviewed received a current DSM-III diagnosis of alcohol abuse or dependence. There was good consensus between current DSM-III diagnoses with current clinical ICD-diagnoses, but poor concordance with lifetime diagnoses. Symptoms of alcoholism, onset and severity, comorbidity with other DIS/DSM-III disorders as well as some selected risk factors are reported. The results are primarily compared with the results of the US-Epidemiological Catchment Area Program (ECA).<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0940-1334",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}