Alcoholism as Career

Topics: 1. illness case history by doctor in attendance. 2. theme conversation: reference person and judgement on relationship with this person; contact intensity; judgement on common leisure behavior with reference person; perceived changes in the relation; frequency and type of conflicts; problem solution resulting from conflicts; sexual practices sober and drunk; responsibility for raising children and care of children; judgement on contact with one´s own parents; significance of family and occupation; satisfaction with housework (only for housewives); reasons for non-marriage (only for singles); detailed information on professional career; frequency of changes of company and reasons for these; work orientation; anomy; detailed information on general ability to establish contacts and alcohol-specific changes of this ability to establish contacts; memberships; hobby; leisure activities; watching television; feeling of boredom; detailed information on personal alcohol career; place and effects of the use of alcohol; difficulties experienced from the use of alcohol and resulting sanctions; measures and treatments against the use of alcohol; assumed heterostereotype of the alcoholic or a former alcoholic; assumed reasons for alcoholism; number of alcohol-specific treatments before the current treatment; time of first or last treatment; type of treatment; treatment length; type of resulting therapies and result evaluation; initiators of earlier treatments and manner of admission; resulting stigmatization after earlier treatments; relapses and relapse situation; personal readiness for and attitude of social surroundings to stationary treatment; delinquency; current legal status (legally incapacitated); current manner of admission; participation of others in the compulsory hospitalization; cause for admission; changes in relations through readiness for treatment; personal expectations of the clinic stay; cooperative conduct in personal therapy; concept of a clinic and therapy; length of stay sought; attitude to treatment of alcoholics in the psychiatric ward; attitude to secrecy of the clinic stay; expected difficulties in the future; assessment of the future situation with occupation and family; follow-up treatments; ideas about further aid measures; personal infidelity or infidelity of partner; length of infidelity; condition of health of partner.

Also encoded was the consistency of patient statements and file records; suicide attempts; suicide as threat or attempt to kill oneself. Demography: sex; age; marital status; religious denomination; place of residence and size of place of residence; size of place of birth; geographic mobility in the first years of life; child-raising persons; changes of family situation in childhood; number of siblings; position in sibling sequence; occupation of father or mother; occupational position of father or mother; judgement on economic conditions in one´s family during one´s childhood; age of spouse and age difference between partners; number of children; personal school education and that of partner; vocational training; personal employment and that of partner; personal occupation last learned or practiced and that of partner; income of head of household; type of right of disposal over income; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household; residential status. 3. catamnese after about one year: amount of time passed since discharge; place and type of interview; participants in the interview; survey atmosphere; survey behavior; atmosphere between the patient and his partner; information on proportion of conversation between patient and partner; residential status; perceived changes regarding the time of case history; size of residence; condition of residence; changes in marital status; changes in living together during the clinic time or in the time after the clinic stay; reference person and judgement on relations; right of disposal over income; contact intensity; reasons for conflict; problem solutions through conflicts; changes in family life and sexuality; changes in social contacts; leisure activities; watching television and feeling of boredom; occupational changes; vertical mobility; unemployment; reasons for lay-off; side jobs; employment of partner; primary bread-winner; problems in the search for work; influence of unemployment on personal self-esteem; detailed information on treatment career and ambulatory contacts; information on development of use of alcohol after clinic stay; resulting relapse; concealment of clinic stay or alcoholism; reactions to clinic stay; participation in social life; stigmatization of partner; alcohol or pill use of partner; support recived; change of company after clinic stay; current source of income; number of clinic stays; marriage length; dissatisfaction with ward life; anomy; delinquency; number of suicide attempts; manner of admission; length of stays on psychiatric ward and in prison.