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© 2025 Kuljancic et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

Background

The COVID-19 pandemics caused both physical and mental health problems raising global social tension, anxiety and discomfort which toghether lead to the increase in the consumption of psychoactive substances, among which alcohol was the most common, as a way of self-help. The hypothesis of this paper is the rising number of type II (anxious model) and type III (depressive model) alcohol dependent patients (as identified by the Lesch Typology) in the post-COVID-19 pandemic period compared to the pre-pandemic period, as a likely consequence of the stress, fear, problems and adversities that were caused by the pandemic.

Method

The research was conducted as a retrospective cross-sectional study. It included 218 patients who were diagnosed with alcohol dependence. To classify the patients by the Lesch Typology, the MS Windows softer package for data processing available in public domain was used.

Results

In relation to the Lesch Typology, 111 (50.9%) patients belonged to type III, 45 (20.6%) to type I, 37 (17.0%) to type II and 25 (11.5%) to type IV.

Conclusion

Compared to the pre-pandemic findings of alcohol dependents classification according to the Lesch Typology, there was no increase in types II and III after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Details

Title
Clinical profile of alcohol dependent paintents according to Lesch Typology one year after the Covid-19 pandemic-comparative study
Author
Kuljancic, Dusan  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Amidzic, Jelena; Lazar Ljubotin; Siladji, Djendji; Bosnjak, Mina Cvjetkovic; Knezevic, Vladimir; Ratkovic, Dragana  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Vanja Bosic Vesna Vasic Branislav Sakic Sanja Bjelan Minja Abazovic Masa Comic Predrag Savic
First page
e0324851
Section
Research Article
Publication year
2025
Publication date
May 2025
Publisher
Public Library of Science
e-ISSN
19326203
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3207182546
Copyright
© 2025 Kuljancic et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.