P-8 * PREDICTION OF RELAPSE USING IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST TO JAPANESE ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE INPATIENTS

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to examine whether an implicit attitude to alcohol drinking for Japanese alcohol dependent inpatients predict their relapse after discharging from hospital. The participants were 21 inpatients of alcohol dependence with informed consent. During hospitalization, alcohol-pleasure Implicit Association Test (IAT) and self-rating scales including severity of their alcohol dependence with Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT), relapse risk of alcohol with Alcohol Relapse Risk Scale (ARRS), subjective craving for alcohol with Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) were administered. A follow-up survey was executed within approximately two weeks after their discharging from hospital to measure their reuse of alcohol. As a result of correlation analysis, moderate correlation between IAT-D score and reuse alcohol (.487). Some of subscales in ARRS (stimulus-induced vulnerability, compulsivity for alcohol, and lack of insight) were also significantly correlated with reuse respectively (.454, .519, .466). Moreover, IAT-D score was significantly correlated with lack of insight subscale score (.596). These results indicated that implicit attitude for alcohol preference could predict their alcohol reuse, being associated with their lack of insight (This research is ongoing now until sufficient data collection).