TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1992//
TI  - Shifts in problem drinking during a life transition: adaptation to medical school training
JO  - Journal of studies on alcohol
A1  - Richman, J. A.
A1  - Flaherty, J. A.
A1  - Pyskoty, C.
SP  - 17
EP  - 24
VL  - 53
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0096-882X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -