Samuel Pombo (*)
Rute Reizinho (*)
Fátima Ismail (**)
J. M. Neves Cardoso (**)
RESUMO
A denegação da alcoolização define a recusa dos bebedores dependentes em assumir o uso patológico do álcool, além de minimizar a relação entre os consumos do álcool e os seus problemas psicológicos, orgânicos e sociais associados.
A escala de avaliação da denegação (Denial Rating Scale) confere ao terapeuta um instrumento de observação quantificação da denegação do problema clínico do álcool.
]]> O presente estudo tem como objectivo, traduzir e validar para a língua portuguesa a escala de avaliação da denegação (Denial Rating Scale) e avaliar o nível de denegação da doença alcoólica tendo em conta os sub-tipos I e II de Cloninger.No processo de confiabilidade inter-avaliadores e de validação da DRS obteve-se coeficientes estatísticos adequados, permitindo a utilização do instrumento num setting especializado para o tratamento da dependência alcoólica.
Os pacientes Tipo II de Cloninger apresentaram menores níveis de denegação do alcoolismo, quando comparados com os pacientes Tipo I.
Palavras-chave: Alcoolismo, denegação, sub-tipos.
ABSTRACT
Alcoholization Denial defines the notion of the drinker refusal to acknowledge his pathological alcohol use or minimizing the relation between alcohol consumption and his psychological, organic and social problems.
The Denial Rating Scale provides the therapist a toole to observe and quantify the clinical problem of denial.
The aim of this study is to translate and validate the Denial Rating Scale to the portuguese language and to assess its relationship with Cloninger’s Type I and II.
Interrater reliability and validity process showed adequated statistical coefficients, allowing the use of the instrument in a specialized alcoholism setting.
]]> Cloninger’s type II patients showed lower levels of alcoholism denial, when compared with type I.Key words: Alcoholism, denial, subtypes.
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]]> (*) Psicólogo Clínico, Núcleo de Estudos e Tratamento do Etilo-Risco (NETER) do Serviço de Psiquiatria do Hospital de Santa Maria. E-mail: samuelpombo@gmail.com
(**) Psiquiatra, Núcleo de Estudos e Tratamento do Etilo-Risco (NETER) do Serviço de Psiquiatria do Hospital de Santa Maria.
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