A prospective study of young men at high risk for alcoholism: school behavior and achievement.

Knop, Joachim; Teasdale, Thomas W.; Schulsinger, Fini; Goodwin, Donald W.

doi:10.15288/jsa.1985.46.273

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“…Daughters were not included in this prospective study because the lifetime prevalence of female alcoholism at that time was so much lower than that for males. More details of the sample selection and procedures can be found in other publications (Knop et al, 1985(Knop et al, , 1989.…”

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“…They were administered structured interviews by a psychologist and a social worker, as well as many other procedures. Also included was an 85-item School Teacher Questionnaire (Knop et al, 1985) completed by the subjects' primary teacher (n = 144; high risk = 95, low risk = 49). None of the subjects in their late teens were categorized by investigators as having an alcohol-use disorder (Knop et al, 1985;Schulsinger et al, 1986).…”

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“…Also included was an 85-item School Teacher Questionnaire (Knop et al, 1985) completed by the subjects' primary teacher (n = 144; high risk = 95, low risk = 49). None of the subjects in their late teens were categorized by investigators as having an alcohol-use disorder (Knop et al, 1985;Schulsinger et al, 1986). Moreover, the alcohol consumption pattern of the subjects in their late teens resembled that of the general Danish male population in 1979 of the same age (Vilstrup and Nielsen, 1979).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A major focus of the initial phase of this longitudinal study singled out behavioral signs of maladjustment in childhood as potential markers for problem drinking in adulthood (Knop et al, 1989;Pollock et al, 1990). When the subjects were approximately ages 15 to 17, school teachers rated the high-risk male teens as showing more inattentive, impulsive, and restless classroom behaviors than low-risk subjects (Knop et al, 1985). In addition, when directly asked, highrisk teens reported more antisocial acts than low-risk teens (Knop et al, 2003).…”

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Childhood ADHD and Conduct Disorder as Independent Predictors of Male Alcohol Dependence at Age 40

Knop

Penick

Nickel

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J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: The Danish Longitudinal Study on Alcoholism was designed to identify antecedent predictors of adult male alcoholism. The infl uence of premorbid behaviors consistent with childhood conduct disorder (CD) and attention-defi cit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on the development of alcohol misuse was examined. Method: Subjects were selected from a Danish birth cohort (9,125), which included 223 sons of alcoholic fathers (high risk) and 106 matched sons of nonalcoholic fathers (low risk). These subjects have been studied systematically over the past 40 years. They were evaluated in their teens (n = 238), later as adults at age 30 (n = 241), and more recently at age 40 (n = 202). At 19-year/20-year follow-ups, an ADHD scale was derived from teacher ratings and a CD scale was derived from a social worker interview. At 30-year and 40-year follow-ups, a psychiatrist used structured interviews and criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, Revised, to quantify lifetime alcoholism severity and to diagnose alcohol-use disorder. Of the original subjects, 110 had complete data for the two childhood measures and the adult alcoholism outcomes. Results: In this smaller subsample, paternal risk did not predict adult alcohol dependence. Subjects who were above a median split on both the ADHD and the CD scales were more than six times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than subjects who scored below the median on both. Although the two childhood measures were correlated, a multiple regression showed that each independently predicted a measure of lifetime alcoholism severity. Conclusions: ADHD comorbid with CD was the strongest predictor of later alcohol dependence. (J. Stud. Alcohol

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Childhood ADHD and Conduct Disorder as Independent Predictors of Male Alcohol Dependence at Age 40

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Penick

Nickel

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J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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“…For example, a recent prospective study (Knop et al, 1985) of all children born in Copenhagen in 1959-1961 found a sample of 233 boys with "alcoholic" fathers (although no information is given about mothers' alcohol usage). The study then compared them with a group of 107 control boys on measures derived from school reports and teacher ratings obtained retrospectively from the last school attended.…”

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Intergenerational Effects—A Review of Environmentally Oriented Studies Concerning the Relationship between Parental Alcohol Problems and Family Disharmony in the Genesis of Alcohol and Other Problems. I: The Intergenerational Effects of Alcohol Problems

Velleman

1992

International Journal of the Addictions

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