Serbian and Austrian alcohol-dependent patients : a comparison of two samples regarding therapeutically relevant clinical features
(2013) In Alcohol and Alcoholism 48(4). p.505-508- Abstract
AIMS: To support the Serbian Expert Board in setting up reimbursement for modern pharmacotherapeutic support, we compared a Serbian sample of alcohol-dependent patients with an Austrian sample, in order to detect differences that might inhibit the introduction of anti-craving medications in Serbia.
METHODS: One hundred and twenty-seven (116 males) alcohol-dependent patients in Serbia and 136 in Austria (78 males) were enrolled consecutively from January 2011 to March 2012 and were assessed using the Lesch alcoholism typology instrument (LAT).
RESULTS: Age of onset was slightly higher in the Austrian sample (28.5 vs. 30.0; P = 0.10). The Serbian sample showed a higher rate of anxiety disorders than the Austrian sample (89.8... (More)
AIMS: To support the Serbian Expert Board in setting up reimbursement for modern pharmacotherapeutic support, we compared a Serbian sample of alcohol-dependent patients with an Austrian sample, in order to detect differences that might inhibit the introduction of anti-craving medications in Serbia.
METHODS: One hundred and twenty-seven (116 males) alcohol-dependent patients in Serbia and 136 in Austria (78 males) were enrolled consecutively from January 2011 to March 2012 and were assessed using the Lesch alcoholism typology instrument (LAT).
RESULTS: Age of onset was slightly higher in the Austrian sample (28.5 vs. 30.0; P = 0.10). The Serbian sample showed a higher rate of anxiety disorders than the Austrian sample (89.8 vs. 26.5%, P ≤ 0.0001). Suicidal tendencies, independent of alcohol intake or withdrawal syndrome, were higher in the Austrian sample (1.6 vs. 13.2% P ≤ 0.0001). There was no difference between the two samples in Lesch-Type IV (26 vs 28); there was a slight excess in the Serbian sample of Type I (15 vs. 10). In Austria, significantly more Type II patients (32 vs. 52) had been included, while the Serbian sample comprised significantly more Type III patients.
CONCLUSIONS: Austrian and Serbian patients are quite similar, without any showing any factor that would detract from the potential value of modern anti-craving medications in Serbia. The differences in anxiety disorders might be due to the 1990s war and should be investigated further.
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- Jakovljevic, Mihajlo LU ; Riegler, Anita ; Jovanovic, Mirjana ; Djordjevic, Natasa ; Patek, Karin ; Lesch, Otto and Walter, Henriette
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- 2013
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Age of Onset, Alcoholism/complications, Anxiety Disorders/complications, Austria/epidemiology, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Serbia/epidemiology, Suicidal Ideation
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- Alcohol and Alcoholism
- volume
- 48
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 4 pages
- publisher
- Oxford University Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84879851830
- pmid:23538609
- ISSN
- 1464-3502
- DOI
- 10.1093/alcalc/agt011
- language
- English
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- e75e197a-e03d-45ae-b3e7-739b0c9e39c9
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- 2018-09-01 23:05:36
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abstract = {{<p>AIMS: To support the Serbian Expert Board in setting up reimbursement for modern pharmacotherapeutic support, we compared a Serbian sample of alcohol-dependent patients with an Austrian sample, in order to detect differences that might inhibit the introduction of anti-craving medications in Serbia.</p><p>METHODS: One hundred and twenty-seven (116 males) alcohol-dependent patients in Serbia and 136 in Austria (78 males) were enrolled consecutively from January 2011 to March 2012 and were assessed using the Lesch alcoholism typology instrument (LAT).</p><p>RESULTS: Age of onset was slightly higher in the Austrian sample (28.5 vs. 30.0; P = 0.10). The Serbian sample showed a higher rate of anxiety disorders than the Austrian sample (89.8 vs. 26.5%, P ≤ 0.0001). Suicidal tendencies, independent of alcohol intake or withdrawal syndrome, were higher in the Austrian sample (1.6 vs. 13.2% P ≤ 0.0001). There was no difference between the two samples in Lesch-Type IV (26 vs 28); there was a slight excess in the Serbian sample of Type I (15 vs. 10). In Austria, significantly more Type II patients (32 vs. 52) had been included, while the Serbian sample comprised significantly more Type III patients.</p><p>CONCLUSIONS: Austrian and Serbian patients are quite similar, without any showing any factor that would detract from the potential value of modern anti-craving medications in Serbia. The differences in anxiety disorders might be due to the 1990s war and should be investigated further.</p>}},
author = {{Jakovljevic, Mihajlo and Riegler, Anita and Jovanovic, Mirjana and Djordjevic, Natasa and Patek, Karin and Lesch, Otto and Walter, Henriette}},
issn = {{1464-3502}},
keywords = {{Age of Onset; Alcoholism/complications; Anxiety Disorders/complications; Austria/epidemiology; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Serbia/epidemiology; Suicidal Ideation}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{4}},
pages = {{505--508}},
publisher = {{Oxford University Press}},
series = {{Alcohol and Alcoholism}},
title = {{Serbian and Austrian alcohol-dependent patients : a comparison of two samples regarding therapeutically relevant clinical features}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agt011}},
doi = {{10.1093/alcalc/agt011}},
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year = {{2013}},
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