title: Family involvement for improving the abstinence rate in the rehabilitation process of female alcoholics.
abstract: We investigated the effect of family involvement on abstention of 90 female alcoholics in recovery processes by multivariate analysis. The abstinence rate of the family-involved group was significantly higher than that of the group not involved (p less than .05). The logistic regression model in which family involvement, age, marital status, eligibility for welfare assistance, and history of previous psychiatric inpatient care were used as independent variables indicated that family involvement was the only variable having a significant effect on abstention (p less than .05).
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Environmental Science, School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takano
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iguchi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008875:Middle Aged; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013695:Temperance / Q000523:psychology