@article{ref1,
title="Shifts in problem drinking during a life transition: adaptation to medical school training",
journal="Journal of studies on alcohol",
year="1992",
author="Richman, J. A. and Flaherty, J. A. and Pyskoty, C.",
volume="53",
number="1",
pages="17-24",
abstract="This study addresses the course of alcohol-related problems in future physicians from the perspectives of occupational stress versus selection and life-span developmental frameworks. A cohort of medical students was surveyed at medical school entrance and during the early fall of the second training year. Self-report questionnaires assessed: alcohol-related problems (using a modified time-linked version of the MAST), pretraining psychosocial and psychopathological characteristics and experiences (symptomatic distress, motivations for drinking, personality attributes/deficits, familial history of problem drinking, family disruption and earlier parental bonding) and medical-training characteristics (perceived stressors and levels of social support). On the basis of MAST scores, respondents manifested the following drinking patterns: consistent nonproblem drinking (67.4%), problem exit or remission during medical training (19.4%), problem entrance or onset during medical training (6.3%) and problem chronicity involving problems before and during medical training (6.9%). Female students were overrepresented in the consistent nonproblem group. The major predictors of Time 2 problem onset and chronicity as opposed to problem remission involved pretraining factors: familial history of alcohol problems, Time 1 symptomatic distress and escape motives for drinking. Future reports will depict the prevalence and etiology of problem drinking manifested during the clinical portion of medical training.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-882X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}