General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Pages 86-93 , January 2010

Motivation to change risky drinking and motivation to seek help for alcohol risk drinking among general hospital inpatients with problem drinking and alcohol-related diseases

  • Katharina Lau, Dipl. Psych.

      Affiliations

    • SHIP/Clinical–Epidemiological Research Unit, Institute of Community Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 3834 8619571; fax: +49 3834 866684.
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  • Jennis Freyer-Adam, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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  • Beate Gaertner, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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  • Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Luebeck, 23538 Luebeck, Germany
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  • Ulrich John, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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  • Ulfert Hapke, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Robert-Koch Institute, FG 22, 13353 Berlin, Germany

Received 24 July 2009 ,Accepted 2 October 2009.

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PII: S0163-8343(09)00189-3

doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2009.10.002

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Pages 86-93 , January 2010

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