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- The study aimed to determine if Cloninger's temperament and character inventory (TCI-R) could predict outcomes in individuals with alcohol use disorders.
- The research involved 237 outpatients over a 6-month period, analyzing personality traits associated with treatment success or dropout.
- Results indicated that higher scores in novelty seeking (NS) correlated with a greater likelihood of dropping out of treatment, suggesting that the TCI-R is effective for predicting treatment outcomes in these patients.
Article Abstract
Objective: to investigate the ability to predict the outcome of alcohol use disorders through Cloninger's temperament and character inventory (TCI-R).
Methods: this is a prospective study consisting of 237 outpatients with alcohol use disorders who underwent follow-up treatment for 6 months and whose personality traits were studied using TCI-R. At the end of that period, the scores of each TCI-R trait were analyzed in terms of those who remained in treatment and those who dropped out.
Results: The whole group scored highly in novelty seeking (NS) and harm avoidance (HA) and produced low scores in self-directedness (SD), these last traits are considered prominent. The drop-out group scored significantly (p=.004) higher in novelty seeking (NS) than the follow-up group. Also, when the score was higher than the 67 percentile the likelihood of abandoning the treatment was 1.07 times higher.
Conclusions: Cloninger's temperament and character inventory is a good instrument to predict the outcome of treatment of patients with alcohol use disorders and the novelty seeking (NS) dimension is strongly related to therapeutic drop-out.
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