Improvement and application of drug relapse risk scale with implicit attitude measurement

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The present research was executed with alcohol dependent inpatients in order to examine the association between alcohol reuse after discharge and implicit attitude to alcohol preference. During hospitalization, alcohol-pleasure Implicit Association Test and self-rating scales including severity of their alcohol dependence, relapse risk of alcohol, subjective craving for alcohol were administered to participants. A follow-up survey was executed within approximately two weeks after their discharging from hospital to measure their reuse of alcohol. As a result, implicit attitude to alcohol preference was significantly and positively correlated with their alcohol reuse. Although controlling the subjective craving for alcohol, this correlation remains significant. Other self-rating variables were not significantly correlated with alcohol reuse. These results implied that implicit attitude for alcohol preference could predict their alcohol reuse.