A study on the correlates of habit-, reward-, and fear-related motivations in alcohol use disorder.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:We assessed self-reported drives for alcohol use and their impact on clinical features of alcohol use disorder (AUD) patients. Our prediction was that, in contrast to "affectively" (reward or fear) driven drinking, "habitual" drinking would be associated with worse clinical features in relation to alcohol use and higher occurrence of associated psychiatric symptoms. METHODS:Fifty-eight Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) alcohol abuse patients were assessed with a comprehensive battery of reward- and fear-based behavioral tendencies. An 18-item self-report instrument (the Habit, Reward and Fear Scale; HRFS) was employed to quantify affective (fear or reward) and non-affective (habitual) motivations for alcohol use. To characterize clinic

SUBMITTER: Piquet-Pessoa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6885012 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature