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O Larsen

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PubMed1988

Family risk factors of alcoholism and drinking patterns among non alcoholic women: an inverse relationship? An exploratory study of female employees.

95 non alcoholic female employees were personally interviewed and divided into three drinking pattern groups with an increasing level of alcohol consumption: the traditional feminine drinking group (TF) (n = 28), the new feminine drinking group (NF) (n = 37), and the masculine drinking group (M) (n = 30). The groups were compared on family variables which may be regarded as risk factors of alcoholism. The results show an inverse relationship between family risk factors and consumption level, the TF-group having significantly more risk factors than the other two groups. The TF-women more often came from families where the mother and her parents were abstainers, while the father and his parents were more often alcohol abusers or not abstainers. The TF-women were more often attached to their alcoholic fathers as children, while the M-women were more often attached to their mothers. The choice of drinking pattern may be inversely related to the frequency of family risk factors among non alcoholic women.

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PubMed1987

Depression and alcohol consumption in non alcoholic and alcoholic women. A clinical study.

The relationship between level of depression and alcohol consumption was studied in 64 alcoholic women, 80 non alcoholic female psychiatric patients and 72 healthy women, using a clinical, semistructured interview, SADS, SSP and HSCL-58. Among DSM-III depressive women, the alcohol consumption was bimodally distributed. Among healthy women, there was an inverse relationship between depressive symptoms and alcohol consumption. Among non alcoholic women dysthymic patients consumed significantly more than major depressive, subclinically depressed and psychotic non depressive patients, and significantly less than healthy, non depressive women. Among alcoholic women, there was no difference in consumption between major depressives, dysthymics and the other diagnostic groups. The results show that there was no general dose-response relationship between level of depression and alcohol consumption. Anxiety level and personality disorder may be more influential on the alcohol consumption than the level of depression among depressive women.

Adolescent↗