The contributions of problem drinking to the level of psychiatric morbidity in the general hospital.
Of 331 patients admitted to a general hospital to whom the CAGE questionnaire was administered, those who scored 2 or more for alcoholism scored higher on a number of measures of psychiatric morbidity than those with a CAGE score of 0. Those patients who scored 1 showed less psychiatric morbidity than those who scored 0. Among the male patients who scored at least one question positively, those who had abstained from alcohol for at least a year showed higher levels of psychiatric morbidity than those still drinking.
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St Stephen's Hospital, Sarsfieldscourt, Glanmire, Co. York, Republic of Ireland.
D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010343:Patient Admission; D010556:Personality Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012931:Social Environment