Study of schizophrenia comorbid with alcohol addiction

The aim of this study was to investigate: the prevalence rate of current alcohol dependence, the family anamnesis of alcohol addiction, social and demographic characteristics, number of hospitalizations and degree of compliance with psychopharmacotherapy, as predictors for poor outcome of schizophrenia comorbid with alcohol addiction. Our results show that men with schizophrenia have higher prevalence rates of comorbid alcohol addiction than women. Comorbidity of alcohol addiction and schizophrenia in men is related with higher rate of divorce and age. In women comorbid alcohol addiction and schizophrenia relate with lower education, higher rate of unmarried women and family health insurance. There is strong evidence of alcohol addiction in first line relatives of schizophrenics with comorbid alcohol addiction, both male and female. Alcohol addiction comorbid with schizophrenia in men and women is related with poor compliance with psychopharmacotherapy and higher rate of hospitalization than with schizophrenia alone.