@article{ref1,
title="Association between psychiatric symptoms and severity of alcohol dependence in a sample of brazilian men",
journal="Journal of nervous and mental disease",
year="2005",
author="Lima, Ana Flávia Barros da Silva and Pechansky, Flavio and Fleck, Marcelo Pio de Almeida and De Boni, Raquel",
volume="193",
number="2",
pages="126-130",
abstract="The objective of this study was to verify the association between psychiatric symptoms and severity of alcohol dependence in male patients who sought treatment in two Brazilian treatment sites. A cross-sectional study was designed with 36 cases stratified into two groups according to the severity of alcohol dependence ascertained by the Short Form Alcohol Dependence Data scale; participants also answered the Mini-Mental State Examination, the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, and the Symptom Check List 90. The mean age of the sample was 46 years, and 63.9% fulfilled criteria for severe alcohol dependence. Obsessive-compulsive, depressive, and paranoid symptoms were the most common clinical findings in the sample. Patients with severe dependence showed higher scores of psychiatric symptoms compared with patients with mild/moderate dependence across all analyses (p <.05). These data suggest an association between severity of alcohol dependence and psychiatric symptoms, pointing at the relevance of early detection of this clinical situation.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3018",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}