Improvement in men inpatients in an alcoholism rehabilitation unit: a week-by-week comparison.
The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), a 53-item psychiatric symptom checklist, was administered to 57 alcoholic inpatients on days 2, 10, 18 and 26 of their 28-day stay in an alcoholism rehabilitation unit at a Veterans Administration hospital. The results of the test show a steady decline in the patients' psychiatric symptomatology from week 1 to week 4 with the most dramatic improvement evidenced between weeks 1 and 2.
D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012008:Recurrence; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology