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Thursday, October 11, 2007

The Readiness to Change and Insight in Alcohol dependent Patient
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.

The patients' readiness to change was classified into precontemplation, contemplation, and action stage through the readiness to change questionnaire. The state of the patients' insight was measured through the Hanil alcohol insight scale.

Fourteen patients (10.7%) were in the stage of precontemplation, 65 (49.6%) in contemplation and 52 (39.7%) in action stage. The insight score of the patients in precontemplation stage was significantly lower (p<0.001) than that of others.

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)>


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