Abstract | AIMS: To investigate the prognostic factors that determine 2-year outcomes in a group of alcohol-dependent patients with depression or bipolar disorder who were treated in an intensive 4-week inpatient programme. METHODS: This was a longitudinal study of an inpatient treatment cohort of dual affective disorder and alcohol-dependent patients, in Dublin, Ireland. Measurements included baseline demographics with follow-up measurements at discharge, 3 months, 6 months and 2 years after treatment, including alcohol consumption, depression, mania/elation, anxiety, craving, drug use and sample blood tests. Factor and regression analysis of multiple variables was carried out to predict outcomes. RESULTS: A total of 189 participants with alcohol dependence and comorbid depression (n = 101) or bipolar disorder (n = 88) were followed over 2 years after discharge from treatment. Retention rate was 76% over 2 years. Early abstinence (at 6 months) predicted better abstinence overall at 2 years; and bipolar alcoholics had a better outcome in drinks per drinking day than depressed alcoholics at 2 years. Younger participants (age 18-30 years) did relatively worse than middle-age (30-50 years) and older (51 + years) participants in measures of abstinence and number of drinks per drinking day at 2 years; and females did better than males in number of drinks per drinking day at 2 years. CONCLUSION: Dual diagnosis of alcohol dependence and depression or bipolar disorder may be treated together with intensive intervention and follow-up, and various prognostic factors including early abstinence emerge over time that influence outcomes over 2 years.
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Authors | Conor K Farren, Laura Snee, Pamela Daly, Sharon McElroy |
Journal | Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)
(Alcohol Alcohol)
2013 Jan-Feb
Vol. 48
Issue 1
Pg. 93-8
ISSN: 1464-3502 [Electronic] England |
PMID | 23059424
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Topics |
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Alcoholism
(diagnosis, epidemiology, therapy)
- Bipolar Disorder
(diagnosis, epidemiology, therapy)
- Cohort Studies
- Comorbidity
- Depression
(diagnosis, epidemiology, therapy)
- Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry)
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Ireland
(epidemiology)
- Longitudinal Studies
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Prognosis
- Temperance
(trends)
- Time Factors
- Treatment Outcome
- Young Adult
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