IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

Psychiatric Morbidity Among Patients with Alcohol-Related Diseases' Spouses

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Saksham Kumar, Sachinpal Bhatti, Nandita, Nishchita Raj, Brijesh Saran

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Alcohol abuse is on the rise everywhere, but especially in emerging nations like India. According to the World Health Organization, up to 50% of Indians who drink alcohol fall into the category of hazardous drinking, with 4%-13% of them doing so on a daily basis. The average age at which alcohol usage begins has decreased in India, from 28 years in the 1980s to 17 years in 2007. Hospital-based cross-sectional study was the study's design. Study location: Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati, Psychiatry Department. October 1, 2014, through September 30, 2015, was the study period. Study subjects: Husbands and wives of adults receiving ARDs treatment at the Department of Psychiatry. The population for the inquiry is made up of the wives of adult patients who are seen in the Department of Psychiatry and have been diagnosed with ARDs in accordance with the International Classification of Diseases 10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders. Following the receipt of each subject's signed informed consent, the structured pro forma was followed to record each subject's demographic information and history of psychiatric disease. The spouses of men with ADS and alcohol dependence ranged in age from 21 to 67 years old (mean SD 35.04 8.98) and 23 to 67 years old (mean SD 41.24 10.101), respectively. 43.6% of spouses and 36.6% of alcohol-dependent men in the study's sample population were between the ages of 31 and 40. The results are consistent with other studies in that they show a relationship between the duration of the husband's alcohol misuse, marital life satisfaction, inadequate family support, and low socioeconomic position and psychiatric morbidities in spouses of men with alcohol-related disorders. But to quantify the impact of these important factors, community studies with a sufficient sample size are needed.

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