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Improvement in Men Inpatients in an Alcoholism Rehabilitation Unit: A Week-by-Week Comparison

J. S. Verinis, L. Wetzel, A. Vanderporten, D. Lewis

The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), a 53-item psychiatric symptom checklist, was administered to 57 alcoholic inpatients on days 2, 10, 18 and 26 of their 28-day stay in an alcoholism rehabilitation unit at a Veterans Administration hospital. The results of the test show a steady decline in the patients’ psychiatric symptomatology from week 1 to week 4 with the most dramatic improvement evidenced between weeks 1 and 2.