FAMILIAL INCIDENCE OF ALCOHOLISM - REVIEW
FAMILIAL INCIDENCE OF ALCOHOLISM - REVIEW
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DOI:
10.15288/jsa.1979.40.89
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
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COTTON, NS
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COTTON, NS
A review and tabular outline of 39 studies compares the incidence of human alcoholism in the families of alcoholics and of nonalcoholics, and examines the relative frequency of alcoholism and mental illness in alcoholics'' families. Although a large percentage of alcoholics (ranging from 47-82% of the samples reviewed) did not report parental alcoholism, alcoholics were more likely than the nonalcoholics studied to have parents, siblings or other relatives who were alcoholics. Alcoholics were 6 times more likely than samples of the general population and 2 times more likely than psychiatric populations to have 1 or both parents who were alcoholics. Rates of alcoholism were higher in the families of women than men alcoholics, in near than in distant relatives and in fathers and brothers than in mothers and sisters. Alcoholism occurred more frequently than any form of mental illness in the relatives of alcoholics. When mental illness occurred, they were more likely to be depressive and psychopathological features than schizophrenia and other psychoses. Problems concerning the accuracy of patients'' and relatives'' reporting, the adjustment of data to reflect populations at risk, and differences in rates of alcoholism in families of different ethnic and other subgroups were considered.