Charakterystyka pacjentów kończących i przerywających stacjonarną terapię uzależnienia od alkoholu
The characteristic of the patients completing and discontinuing the residential treatment programme for alcohol dependence

Summary/Abstract: Introduction. Patients addicted to alcohol often give up the psychotherapeutic treatment programs. On one side, in out-patients clinics they are exposed to several factors which make keeping abstinence difficult and finishing the treatment program. On the other side patients who participate in the stationary psychotherapy for addicted people are less exposed to this factors and a lot of them still are not able to finish the treatment program. The aim of the research was to describe and compare patients finishing and discontinuing the stationary psychotherapy program for alcoholics. Method. The empirical data was taken from analyzing medical documentation, history of patients addiction staying over the year in a stationary department of the hospital and participating in the basic treatment program for alcoholics. Result. Received results show that 27,6% of patients do not finish the taken treatment program for alcoholics. In the presentation there are statistically significant differences between patients who finished psychotherapy and discontinued. The men statistically more often then women break the psychotherapy. Patients who discontinued the psychotherapy more often live alone (divorced or unmarried), and stayed without constant incomes. Personality disorders and mental diseases (depression, alcohol halucinosis during entering the hospital, schizophrenia, affective bipolar disorder). W found less significant differences in such variables as: place of living, staying with children, level of education, somatic state during entering the hospital, judicial commitment, and criminality.

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