종합병원 입원환자의 알코올중독 유병율과 주치의의 인지도 조사

Prevalence and Physician，s Detection Rate of Alcoholism in Patients of a General Hospital

The authors studied prevalence and physician s detection rate of alcoholism in 478 adult patients admitted at Kyung-Hee Medical Center from June to July in 1992. In this study, the authors used self-report questionnaire consisting of Korean version of DSMI1I- R, MAST, NAST(I)(Alcoholism Screening Test of Seoul National Mental Hospital(I) ) ， and additional demographic questions. The results were as following : 1) Among 478 patients, prevalence of alcoholism was 26.8% (76 patients) in male and 1.6% (3 patients) in female. 2) Among the patients who are identified as alcoholism by the authors, detection rates of alcoholism by the charge physicians were 24.2% in internal medicine and none in other departments. 3) Compared to the alcoholic patients who are not detected by the charge physicians, the alcoholic patients who are detected are more aged patients showing high scored MAST significantly and having liver diseases.