Carmona A E, Currumilla J C
Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Central (Campus La Reina), Santiago de Chile.
Rev Med Chil. 1992 Oct;120(10):1177-83.
The review of the literature on alcohol and alcoholism published in fifteen wellknown Chilean journals shows an exponential grow of the publications in the period 1950-1989. More than 50% of the 333 articles found has been published in the 80s and 64% were published in only three journals. Biological subjects such as liver alterations induced by alcohol and metabolism of ethanol account for 36% of the papers published in the period of 1950-1989. In spite of the fact that alcoholism in a main health problem in the country, it is striking that only 3.6% of the papers show empiric results of treatment of alcoholics and only few articles dealt with psychological, psychosocial, behavioral and social subjects in relation to alcoholism. Possible reasons for the lack of such studies are difficulties researchers find to have time, funds and facilities to dedicate to research in the institutions they are working on.
对发表在15种智利知名期刊上的关于酒精与酒精中毒的文献综述表明，在1950年至1989年期间，此类出版物呈指数增长。在所发现的333篇文章中，超过50%发表于80年代，且64%仅发表于三种期刊。诸如酒精引起的肝脏改变和乙醇代谢等生物学主题占1950年至1989年期间发表论文的36%。尽管酒精中毒是该国的一个主要健康问题，但令人惊讶的是，只有3.6%的论文展示了治疗酗酒者的实证结果，且仅有少数文章涉及与酒精中毒相关的心理、心理社会、行为和社会主题。缺乏此类研究的可能原因是研究人员在其工作的机构中难以获得时间、资金和设施来致力于研究。
