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2019 Month : March Volume : 8 Issue : 11 Page : 758-763QUALITY OF LIFE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SEVERITY OF ADDICTION- A CROSS SECTIONAL HOSPITAL-BASED STUDY AMONG ALCOHOL DEPENDENT PATIENTS.
Praveen P. Jose1, Druhin Adavalath2
Corresponding Author:
Dr. Druhin Adavalath
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry
Academy of Medical Sciences, Pariyaram
Kannur, Kerala, PIN-670503
E-mail: druhinav@yahoo.co.in
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND
WHO has estimated that alcohol accounts for 4% of all disease burden worldwide. Alcohol is the 3rd leading cause of disability in the developed world. It causes 5.9% of all deaths globally & 5.1% of the disability adjusted life years. Quality of life is a concept situated between social and clinical sciences, and is an indicator to evaluate the subjective experience of the patient and to quantify the psychosocial burden of alcoholism.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
This is a hospital based cross sectional study Validated semi structured questionnaires containing sociodemographic details, Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire and WHO Quality of Life- BREF were used.
RESULTS
The study population showed that 93.8 % (375 nos.) were males and 6.3% (25 nos.) were females. More than half of the patients had moderate level of alcohol dependence (54.5%), followed by mild alcohol dependence in 23.5% and severe in 22% of the subjects. The mean WHO Quality of Life assessment on the various domains were procured after detailed interview. In that, physical health had a mean score of 23.76 ± 5.7, followed by psychological health in 19.07 ± 4.6, social relationship score was lower at 9.02±1.7, environmental score was highest with 31 ± 1.7 and the final overall score was 6.84 ± 2.2. The correlation between various Quality of Life Scores and the mean age of onset of alcohol dependence was assessed. There was positive correlation between psychological health and WHO Quality of Life, but rest of the factors showed negative correlation. But all the scores were not statistically significant.
CONCLUSION
The Quality of Life is affected in alcohol dependents significantly. Our study showed that people with severe alcohol dependence had poor quality of life.
KEY WORDS
Alcohol Dependence, Quality of Life, Correlation