Original Research Article
Year: 2021 | Month: January | Volume: 11 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 197-204
A Study to Assess the Contributing Factors of Alcoholism among Adults in Selected De-Addiction Centre, Mangaluru
Praveena Sunny, Preema C.F, Quency D’Souza, Rakshitha, Ramya, Shajan Xavior
Father Muller College of Nursing, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India
Corresponding Author: Shajan Xavior
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Alcohol use disorders have been prevalent across all societies. The pattern of alcohol use varies depending on age, religion, education, type of drink and other demographic characteristics. Alcohol use is increasing in developing countries, but reliable factors are not available. Since 1970, 47% of developing countries in transition and 35% of developed countries have increased their consumption of absolute alcohol per adult (WHO, 1999). Alcohol causes 4% of the total disability adjusted life years and alcohol use disorders account for1.4% of the total burden of disease, according to recent estimates (WHO, 2002).1 Keeping in this mind, this study was undertaken to assess the contributing factors for alcoholism among adults.
Objectives: The study was conducted to determine the major contributing factors of alcoholism among adults and to find the association between the contributing factors for alcoholism in selected demographic variables.
Methodology: A quantitative approach is used for this study. The study was carried out on 41 alcoholic patients admitted in the psychiatry de addiction ward of selected hospital in mangaluru. Institutional ethics committee permission was obtained. After taking informed consent from the 41 alcoholic patients were selected by purposive sampling technique. The tool consists of demographic profile along with contributing factors questionnaire. Reliability and validity of the tool were established. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics
Result: The study findings show that out of 20 contributing factors the majority of them have said that personal and psychological factors contribute for alcoholism among adults. There is no association between the baseline variables and contributing factors for alcoholism.
Key words: Contributing factor, alcoholism, de-addiction Centre, adults.