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Psykiatriska diagnoser i Socialstyrelsens samverkansförsök kring personer med svÄr psykisk störning och missbruk.
A 6-Year Follow-Up of Alcoholics After Long-Term Outpatient Treatment
The predictors of the longâterm outcome in alcoholics (n= 50) who had been treated in a 2âyear outpatient treatment program were investigated. Previously, the sample had been followed up personally 2 years after the termination of treatment. This study is a repeated, independent followâup of the same sample over a 4âyear period, 3â6 years after termination of treatment. Outcome could be categorized in 38 subjects. Patients with a favorable outcome during at least 2 years of the 4âyear followâup period (n= 21), who were categorized as a positive outcome group, were compared with the other patients (n= 17). There was no significant correlation between initial patient characteristics and outcome 3â6 years after treatment. Drinking outcome during the 1st halfâyear of treatment had no correlation to positive drinking outcome in years 3â6, whereas there was a positive correlation for later phases of treatment and outcome reaching a significant level during the 2nd and 4th halfâyear of treatment. A favorable drinking outcome during years 1â2 after treatment had a positive significant correlation to outcome in years 3â6 after treatment [i.e., 80% of the patients with a favorable outcome during the 1st followâup period also had a positive outcome during the 2nd followâup period, and 72% of those who had an unfavorable outcome during the 1st followâup period had an unfavorable outcome also during the 2nd followâup period (x2 test = 10.4, p < 0.001). Psychoâsocial adjustment at the 6âyear followâup did not differ significantly between subjects in the positive outcome group and subjects in the negative outcome group