title: The readiness to change and insight in alcohol dependent patients.
abstract: This study was performed to investigate the effect of insight on the readiness to change in alcoholism. The subjects were 131 Korean male patients with alcohol dependence who were being hospitalized in a community-based alcohol treatment center. The patients' readiness to change was classified into precontemplation, contemplation, and action stage through the readiness to change questionnaire. The state of the patients' insight was measured through the Hanil alcohol insight scale. Fourteen patients (10.7%) were in the stage of precontemplation, 65 (49.6%) in contemplation and 52 (39.7%) in action stage. The insight score of the patients in precontemplation stage was significantly lower (p<0.001) than that of others. On the basis of the precontemplation stage, multinomial logistic regression analysis for the control of the differences in the patients' characteristics among each stage of the readiness to change showed that the possibility of contemplation and action stage went up 1.231 (p<0.01) and 1.249 (p<0.01) times higher as the insight score increased.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Chungnam National University Hospital, 640 Daesa-dong, Jung-gu, Daejeon, Korea.
authors.forename: Kyoung Min
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jong Sung
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Gap Jung
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sung Soo
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jin Gyu
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Seong Min
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Han Ju
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Pack
authors.forename: Dong Hoon
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D001364:Awareness; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D011594:Psychometrics; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012648:Self Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires