Proof of success

Since 1987, the Fürstenland Toggenburg hospital region (renamed Berit Klinik AG on April 1, 2022) has been offering comprehensive and holistic short-term inpatient therapy for people with alcohol problems at the PSA. In order to obtain high-quality feedback from patients after the end of therapy, we invite all participants to the PSA for a group discussion after three months. In this context, they bring us the questionnaire sent to them in advance, which mainly contains questions about their quality of life and their defined abstinence goals.

More than 80 percent of former patients reported a significant improvement in their drinking behavior three months after the end of therapy. Over 60 percent remained completely abstinent. Respondents stated that they had benefited significantly from the therapy: significant improvements had been achieved in areas of their lives such as relationships, friendships, health, work, and leisure time, and their physical and mental well-being had also changed significantly for the better.