Participants and procedure
RECURRENCE
The study was conducted from March 2017 to March 2018 at KARF St. Mary’s Hospital in Ilsan, Republic of Korea. We recruited 55 patients with AUD; all met the study criteria and provided informed consent. We randomly allocated the 55 participants into the control (n = 27) and experimental (n = 28) groups. However, 20 participants dropped out due to recurrence of alcohol use. Finally, 15 and 20 participants from the control and experimental groups, respectively, completed the study.