title: The characteristics of alcoholics in treatment arrested for Driving While Impaired.
abstract: Relationships were explored between various characteristics and Driving While Impaired (DWI) arrests, within a sample of 258 hospitalized male alcoholics. Information on four groups of variables were collected using a self-administered questionnaire: socio-demographic characteristics, drinking characteristics, driving characteristics and psychosocial characteristics. Subjects were subdivided into three groups; those with zero DWI arrests, one DWI arrest and multiple DWI arrests. The results of bivariate analyses showed that while Groups 0 and 1 were very similar to each other, those in Group 2 differed significantly from at least one of the other two groups for about one half of the variables studied. A multivariate discriminant analyses demonstrated that there were no important differences between people with 0 and 1 DWI arrests, as people with one arrest were usually classified as having zero arrests.
authors.affiliation: Addiction Research Foundation, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: MacDonald
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Pederson
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001334:Automobile Driving; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009864:Ontario; D010556:Personality Tests; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors