A cross-sectional study on burden among wives of alcoholics

Author: 
Ponnuchamy L., Shreedevi A.U and Sujan H.L

Alcoholism is one of the major health and social problems all over the world. Often the family members of alcoholics suffer intense psychological, physical and social trauma due to the core drinking problem of the family member. The aim of the study was to assess the coping pattern among spouse of alcoholics. This study design was a cross sectional survey. The sample size was 100 persons with alcohol problems. The present study adopted purposive sampling technique and appropriate tools were used to collect the data. The result showed that majority (29.0%)of the respondents were between the age of 36-40years, 39.0% of the respondents were belonging to6-10 standard level of education, 39.0% of the respondents were homemaker in their occupational status, and 53.0% of the respondents wereinrural domicile background. About 87.0% of the respondents were belonging to family type of nuclear family, 28.0%ofthe respondent were reported that duration of consume alcohol between 11 to 15years, 22.0%ofthe respondent were in 21 to 25year of living with spouses. Overall results of the burden reveal that majority of the (80.0%) respondents were reported to have moderate burden. The details of the results have been presented in this article below.

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5417-5421
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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/23956429.ijcmpr202012932
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