PMID- 23785237
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130621
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1176-6328 (Print)
IS  - 1178-2021 (Electronic)
IS  - 1176-6328 (Linking)
VI  - 9
DP  - 2013
TI  - Treatment in hospital for alcohol-dependent patients decreases attentional bias.
PG  - 773-9
LID - 10.2147/NDT.S42556 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Previous studies in alcohol-dependent patients have 
      shown an attentional bias (AB) under related substance cues, which can lead to 
      relapse. This AB can be evaluated by the alcohol Stroop test (AST). The AST is a 
      modified Stroop task in which participants have to name the color of an 
      alcohol-related word or a neutral word. AB is the response-time difference 
      between these two types of words. The goal of the current study was to examine 
      modification of AB during specialized hospitalization for alcohol dependence, 
      with the suppression of a training bias that could be present in within-subject 
      design. METHODS: Individuals with alcohol-dependence disorders (Diagnostic and 
      Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition) and admitted for withdrawal 
      in the addiction unit of the University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand (test group, 
      n = 42) and persons with no alcohol or psychiatric disorder (control group, n = 
      16), recruited among colleagues and friends of the staff, performed the AST. A 
      subgroup of the test group performed the AST in admission (admission group, n = 
      19), and another subgroup undertook the test immediately before discharge 
      (discharge group, n = 23). RESULTS: Results showed an AB only for patients seen 
      at admission (F[1,55] = 3.283, P = 0.075). Moreover, we observed that the AB in 
      the admission group (mean = 34 ms, standard deviation [SD] = 70.06) was greater 
      than the AB in the control group (mean = 23 ms, SD = 93.42), itself greater than 
      the AB in the discharge group (mean = -12 ms, SD = 93.55) (t[55] = -1.71; P = 
      0.09). CONCLUSION: Although the results are preliminary, the present study 
      provides evidence for changes in the AB during alcohol-addiction treatment and 
      for the value of these methods to diminish AB during detoxification.
FAU - Flaudias, Valentin
AU  - Flaudias V
AD  - Clermont Universite, EA 7280 NPsy-Sydo, Clermont-Ferrand, France; ; Pole 
      Psychiatrie B, CHU Gabriel-Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
FAU - Brousse, Georges
AU  - Brousse G
FAU - de Chazeron, Ingrid
AU  - de Chazeron I
FAU - Planche, Francois
AU  - Planche F
FAU - Brun, Julien
AU  - Brun J
FAU - Llorca, Pierre-Michel
AU  - Llorca PM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130530
PL  - New Zealand
TA  - Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat
JT  - Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
JID - 101240304
PMC - PMC3682808
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - addiction
OT  - alcohol Stroop test
OT  - attentional bias
EDAT- 2013/06/21 06:00
MHDA- 2013/06/21 06:01
PMCR- 2013/05/30
CRDT- 2013/06/21 06:00
PHST- 2013/05/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/06/21 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/06/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/06/21 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2013/05/30 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ndt-9-773 [pii]
AID - 10.2147/NDT.S42556 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2013;9:773-9. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S42556. Epub 2013 May 
      30.