1. Impulsivity in inpatient substance abusers: an exploratory study
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Rosalia Mercanti, Giancarlo Cicolini, Dania Comparcini, Valentina Simonetti, Francesco Galli, Di Labio Luisa, and Gianna Sepede
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Substance-Related Disorders ,media_common.quotation_subject ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Exploratory research ,Impulsivity ,Recurrence ,Risk Factors ,medicine ,Humans ,Big Five personality traits ,Psychiatry ,General Nursing ,media_common ,Inpatients ,Rehabilitation ,Substance dependence ,Addiction ,Therapeutic community ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Substance abuse ,Impulsive Behavior ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Impulsiveness is one of the most socially relevant personality traits, and individual differences in impulsivity are related to many social deviant behaviours, such as substance dependence (Stanford et al. 2009). Coffee and cigarette consumption is associated with higher levels of impulsiveness (Mitchell 1999). Impulsiveness and poly-abuse are both risk factors for the development and maintenance of addiction and for the relapse after withdrawal (Stuyt 1997, Junghanns et al. 2005, Tziortzis et al. 2011). Bankston et al. (2009) showed the effectiveness of therapeutic community in decreasing patients’ impulsivity after long-term rehabilitation programmes. To date, no studies evaluated the effectiveness of a short-term detoxification unit in decreasing inpatients’ impulsivity levels.
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- 2013
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