Citation

Cardoso JM, Barbosa A, Ismail F, Pombo S. Alcohol Alcohol. 2006; 41(2): 133-139.

Affiliation

Alcoholism Unit Staff, Núcleo de Estudos e Tratamento do Etilo-Risco (NETER), Lisbon, Portugal. josenevescardoso@hotmail.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/alcalc/agh247

PMID

16314426

Abstract

AIMS: To establish an alcohol-dependent drinker's clinical typology, based on patients attending the Alcoholism Unit of Santa Maria's General Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. METHODS: A multivariate statistical analysis was used to extract the typology solution. RESULTS: We obtained five factors: Anxiopathic, typifies anxious functioning; Heredopathic, congregates familiar and genetic influences on alcoholism; Thimopathic, typified by affective symptomatology; Sociopathic, characterized by disruptive behaviours under alcohol influence; and Adictopathic, isolates younger individuals who consume alcohol and other types of psychoactive substances. CONCLUSIONS: There are increasingly alcoholic polymorphic subtypes derived from the interactive complexity between genetic/family and psychosocial factors.

Language: en