Physicians and alcoholics. Factors affecting attitudes of family-practice residents toward alcoholics.
Family-practice residents rated alcoholics as weaker, sicker and more hopeless and aimless than average persons on an adjective semantic differential, and diabetics as sicker than average persons. The implications for the diagnosis and treatment of alcoholism are discussed.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000209:etiology; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007396:Internship and Residency; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012659:Semantic Differential; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D014481:United States