Disability in alcohol dependent patients and its relation to quality of life of their caregivers
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Psychology - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Objective: To find out the relationship between disability in alcohol dependant patients and Quality of Life in their caregivers. Materials and Methods: The study was cross sectional, conducted in Mamata Medical College, Khammam, from September 2016 to March 2017. Our study sample contains 50 alcohol dependent patients who admitted in psychiatry ward at, Mamata General Hospital, and their care givers are included in the present study. Results: Quality of life is more affected in physical and Psychological domain and followed by social and environmental domain. The result shows that all domain scores of quality of life are strongly negatively correlated with disability of husbands i.e., physical, psychological, social and environmental. This observation is more evident in psychological domain. In our study when we compared disability in alcohol dependent patients with all four domains of quality of life of caregivers we found there was significant difference in all domains. Comparably significance was more when we compared disability of alcohol dependent patients with psychological domain of quality of life. Conclusion: Quality of life is more affected in physical and Psychological domain and followed by social and environmental domain. Disability of alcohol dependence is strongly negatively correlated with all domains of quality of life of their caregivers.
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Murali Krishna V, Gautham Tialam, Raghuram Macharapu
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