주정중독에서 발병나이에 따른 아형 분류 기준의 타당성

The Validity of Criteria for Subgrouping Alcoholics according to Age of Onset

Objective：This study tried to evaluate the validity of criteria for subgrouping inpatients alcoholics based primarily on age-at-onset factors. Method：We interviewed a selected group of inpatients (N＝42). Subjects had a psychiatric interview, including completion of various alcohol drinking related questionnaires. Results：We found that there were differences between subgroups of alcoholics when divided according to Von Knorring’s age of onset criteria. The Type 2 early age of onset alcoholics (n＝12) had a significantly higher percentage of positive family histories of alcoholism, (p<0.05), a higher percentage of past delinquent behavior (p<0.05), moree past delinquent behavior (p<0.05), more antisocial persanality trait(p<0.05) and a low score antisocial personality trait (p<0.05) and a low score of Quality of Life scale relative to the Type 1 late age of onset alcoholics (n＝30). Conclusion：We concluded that there is validity to alcohol typology theory in relation to inpatients alcoholics and that age of onset is a useful defining criterion and other factor that family history, past delinquent history and antisocial personality trait are important factor to classify of alcohol subgroups.