Quality of life in wives of alcohol dependence syndrome patients
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Psychology - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Alcoholism causes harm to the well-being and health of the person and also the family. Spouses are mostly affected because of the intimate nature of the relationship. Traditionally most of the studies have focused only on the individual consuming alcohol. Aim and Objective: To study the various factors that affect quality of life in wives of alcohol dependence syndrome patients. Methodology: Total 80 wives were selected after applying inclusion criteria. Sociodemographic data was collected by interviewing them. QOL score was calculated by using WHO-QOL-BREF scale. Result: A significant correlation was seen between poor quality of life among wives and severity of alcohol addiction among husbands across all domains of QOL (p<0.05). Similarly negative correlation was also observed with duration of alcohol consumption, though it was significant only in social and psychological domain (p<0.05).
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Sudhir J Gaikwad, Sagar Sagar Kulkarni, Vaibhav Chaturvedi
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