DRINKING PATTERNS OF MALE AND FEMALE FUTURE M.D.'S

这项研究的目标是调查一所医学院的队列 进入医学院并在随后的两个时间点 医学培训，阐明心理社会对 饮酒和与酒精有关的问题 未来的女医生。这项研究试图对比这两种转变 在饮酒行为和酒精相关问题上随着时间的推移 这些男性和女性的主要目标是区分 在童年早期的依恋经历、个性 特点，以及专业人员的特点 培训环境(例如，压力源、类型和程度 社会支持)的相对病因学影响 男、女未来医生饮酒。一个重要的假设是 与医疗培训相关的压力源和 社会支持方面的限制将对 女性饮酒量与男性饮酒量相比。数据将是 通过自我报告问卷的方式收集，包括： 啤酒消费的数量、频率和可变性， 葡萄酒和蒸馏烈酒；与酒精有关的问题；原因 饮酒；吸毒模式；早期亲子关系 人际关系和破裂的关系；个性 特征(内外控制点、自尊、 和人际依赖)，最近的社会压力和社会 支撑物。此外，通过桅杆筛选的子样本将被 面谈，使用诊断性评估。各种各样的 数据中将使用多元统计技术 分析。较长期的目标是保留一项“研究” 与这个医学生队列的关系，以便 最终评估其饮酒行为(及相关问题) 几年后，在医疗实践的早期阶段。

The goal of this study is to survey a medical school cohort at entrance into medical school and at two subsequent points during medical training, illuminating the psycho-social influences on alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in male and female future physicians. The study seeks to contrast the shifts in drinking behavior and alcohol-related problems over time in these men and women, with a primary goal of differentiating between earlier childhood attachment experiences, personality characteristics, and the characteristics of the professional training environment (e.g., stressors and types and degrees of social supports) in terms of their relative etiologic influence on male and female future physician drinking. A major hypothesis is that the stressors associated with medical training and the limitations in social supports will have a more powerful effect on female compared to male alcohol consumption. The data will be collected by means of self-report questionnaires encompassing: quantity, frequency and variability in the consumption of beer, wine and distilled spirits; alcohol-related problems; reasons for drinking; drug use patterns; perceived earlier parent-child relationships and disrupted relationships; personality characteristics (internal-external locus of control, self-esteem, and interpersonal dependency), recent social stressors and social supports. In addition, a sub-sample screened by the MAST will be interviewed, using a diagnostic assessment. A variety of multivariate statistical techniques will be used in the data analysis. The longer term objective is to retain a "research relationship" with this medical student cohort in order to ultimately assess its drinking behavior (and related problems) several years later in the early stages of medical practice.