An evaluation of the therapeutic programme conducted by the Southern Regional Alcohol-Abuse Treatment Centre: Study on the programme's results one year after discharge from inpatient care
D. Neto et al., An evaluation of the therapeutic programme conducted by the Southern Regional Alcohol-Abuse Treatment Centre: Study on the programme's results one year after discharge from inpatient care, EUR ADDIC R, 7(2), 2001, pp. 61-68
Given the clinical and social problems caused by the consumption of alcohol
in most industrialised countries, there is a strong need to develop and ev
aluate the effectiveness of integrated care programmes. In this study, the
authors describe the results observed in 124 sequentially admitted subjects
at various points throughout the course of the first year after their disc
harge from the Southern Regional Alcohol-Abuse Treatment Centre (CRAS) in L
isbon, Portugal. An inpatient stay at this unit of CRAS lasts for between 5
and 7 weeks and implies that the patient must submit him/herself to a ther
apeutic model which has been adapted from the Minnesota model. At the end o
f the year under study 44.3% of the patients were still abstinent 40.3% wer
e consuming alcohol and 15.4% did not reply. 51 patients (41.1% of the init
ial sample) were still in regular contact with CRAS for further treatment a
t that point. The variable that was found to possess the most significant a
ssociation with a favourable outcome was adherence to the therapeutic progr
amme over the course of that year. Copyright (C) 2001 S. Karger AG. Basel.