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Friday, June 29, 2007

The Readiness to Change and Insight in Alcohol dependent Patients
J Korean Med Sci. 2007 Jun;22(3):453-458.

This study was performed to investigate the effect of insight on the readiness to change in alcoholism.

On the basis of the precontemplation stage, multinomial logistic regression analysis for the control of the differences in the patients' characteristics among each stage of the readiness to change showed that the possibility of contemplation and action stage went up 1.231 (p<0.01) and 1.249 (p<0.01) times higher as the insight score increased.

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