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The Hospital Experience of Alcoholics

Purpose：This study was to build up a detailed and structural substantive theory on the alcoholics’ hospital experience. Method：It was selected Creswell’s (2002) exploratory mixed method research design applying qualitative research and quantitative research sequentially, and then integrating two studies into one. In the qualitative research, 17 inpatient alcoholics participated. Qualitative data were collected and analyzed by the method of Strauss and Corbin (1998). In the quantitative study (survey), 172 inpatient alcoholics participated. Quantitative data were ana-lyzed with window’s SPSS 11.0 Version. Results：Through the qualitative research, 327 concepts, 81 subcategories, 23 categories, and a tentative conceptual framework were extracted. The tentative conceptual framework was composed with 23 categories including a core phenomenon (“Bridling”), emotional reactions (“Comfort”, “Bluntness”, “Boiling-Heart”), coping strategies (“Accepting”, “Dwindling”, “Standing-Against”), and de-bridling attitudes as result (“Recovering-Effort”, “Tinkering-Effort”, “Cling-Discharge”, “Depending-Hospital”, “Self-Despairing”). Through the quantitative research, significant factors (interventions and contextual conditions) which influence emotional reactions, coping strategies, and de-bridling attitudes of the inpatient alcoholics were founded. In the last phase of this study, the process of the alcoholics’ hospital experience was constructed. The process showed the steps and courses coming to the various de-bridling attitudes. Expecially the pathway to “recovering-effort”, one of the de-bridling attitudes, is expected to be desirable experience process for alcoholics during their hospitalization.