Psycho-social characteristics of female alcoholics

This paper presents the survey and benefits of various questionnaires for the examination of male and female population of alcoholics. It continues to show the results of an investigation carried out at the Department for Psychiatry, Alcoholism and Other Dependences of the University Hospital "Sestre milosrdnice" in Zagreb. The aim of this study was to obtain the most accurate and recent information about alcohol dependence and the socio-psychiatric characteristic of alcoholism in the Croatian urban environment on the basis of a specially prepared questionnaire. The group of 166 treated alcoholic persons consisted of 120 males and 46 females. The age of examinees ranged between 30 to 40. The great difference in psycho-social characteristics between male and female alcoholics was confirmed. Symptomatic alcoholism observed in women was due to primary and secondary family disorders and resulted in the anxious depressive disturbance. The incidence of primary female alcoholism is on the rise. This trend can be ascribed to the changes in the life style of urban female population.