The present study reports on the treatment of 62 primary alcoholic patients using either Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) or sham stimulation in a control group. The treatment consisted of half-hour sessions given five days per week during a four-week period. The variables analyzed included age, socio-demographic status, duration of alcohol dependence, frequency and volume of consumption, craving, and duration of sleep. Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST), Alcohol Dependence Scale (ADS), Drinking Behavior Inventory (DBI), Symptoms Checklist-90 Revised (SCL-90R), Hamilton Psychiatric Rating Scale for Depression, Hamilton Anxiety Scale and Diagnostic Interview Schedule concerning organic brain syndrome, were used. Laboratory tests included serum Gamma-Glutamyl Transferase (GGT) and Mean Corpuscular volume (MCV). Significantly greater improvements were obtained in the active treatment group in the depression subscale and in the Positive Symptoms Distress Level of SCL-90R. The active stimulation reduced alcohol consumption significantly during weekends, but no significant difference in the average weekly consumption was observed between active and sham treatment groups. Consistently more favorable results were observed in the active treatment group in other dependent variables.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.59650 |
| Date | January 1990 |
| Creators | Malec, Tadeusz Stanislas |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Psychiatry.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001126731, proquestno: AAIMM66396, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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