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Significant differences in well-being variables between telephone contact group and no contact group at 24 months after the end of intensive treatment are at least partially due to phone contact/informative checking 3, 6, and 12 months after the end of intensive therapy. Telephone or any short and easy accessible communication checking is a promising as supportive and research tool in aftercare alcohol addiction treatment, especially because of its cost-benefit advantages.

Problem Which are the relations between perception, that respondents had serious financial problems in the last year (independent variable) and 1.mothers' and fathers' self-esteem, perceived depression, evaluation of own family climate and 2.different parental dependencies, mostly the alcohol one (dependent variables). Methods Three types of families were included (families with no referred dependent member, with drug dependent children, with alcohol dependent fathers), all together 197 families. Rosenberg self-esteem scale, original semantic differential for family climate, Zung depression scale, anamnesis information, questionnaire identifying family structural aspects/interaction dynamic and SASSI instrument (Substance abuse subtle screening inventory) were applied. Age and estimation of fathers' and mothers' dependency seriousness (AUDIT-Alcohol use disorder identification test) were taken into account as covariates. Results Almost all perceptions ad 1., so from the mothers', as from the fathers' side, differed significantly regarding the mothers' perception of existence of recent serious financial problems, while analogous differences were found in the case of fathers only for fathers' selfesteem. Significant age covariate effect was found as more frequently connected with dependent variables when fathers' perceptions were source of variation. Mothers differed significantly regarding the independent variable only in three SASSI sub scores (COR, FAM and DEF), while fathers did not differ only in two (FVOD, RAP). Conclusion Higher financial self-evaluation of mothers mostly expresses also higher family´s financial level. Parental financial status does not contribute only to more effective recovery and well-being, but also to certain degree to higher level of denial.

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IntroductionUsing the modified Theory of Planned Behaviour (mTPB), different indicators of therapeutic success were studied to understand pro-abstinence behavioural orientation during an 18-year after-care period following a 3-month intensive alcoholism treatment. The indicators were: perceived needs satisfaction (NS), normative differential (ND), perceived alcohol utility (UT), beliefs about treatment programme benefits (BE) and behavioural intentions (BI).MethodsThe sample of 167 patients who consecutively started an intensive alcoholism treatment programme has been followed-up for 18 years, using standardised ailed instruments at the end of the treatment, and in the years 4-5, 9 and 18 of follow-up. The last data collection was completed by 32 subjects in 2010. The analysis followed the standard explore-analyse-explore approach. After the initial descriptive exploration of data, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) in SPSS statistical package was set to explore between-groups and within-groups differences over time.ResultsAt the between-group level, BI remained stable at the same level as at the end of the treatment programme, whereas BE and UT robustly changed over time and levelled off after 10 years of follow-up. NS and ND show a trend of pro-abstinent orientation and level off after 10 years of follow-up, although the trend is not significant. The same results were confirmed by the within-subject level.ConclusionsStudied constructs stabilised after ten years of follow-up, apart from BI. The latter suggests that BI level needed for completion of an intensive treatment programme suffices for the maintenance of abstinence when accompanied by the change in perception of alcohol usefulness.