Amanpreet Kaur
Khals College of Nursing, India
Title: Level of alcohol consumption and its affective correlates among hospitalized patients
Biography
Biography: Amanpreet Kaur
Abstract
Everybody now-a-days are facing stressful situations and are unable to cope with too much stress. They start taking support of substance and alcohol and get addicted. Due to which they meet with accidents and suffer with many medical problems in chronic condition and ultimately are admitted in hospitals. Even after they do not leave the alcohol drinks. Sometimes they increase the amount of alcohol to get relief from pain and other stressful conditions. The aim of the present study was to explore the level of alcohol consumption with its affective correlates among patients. Using purposive sampling, 100 patients admitted in orthopedic and medicine wards admitted in Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Amritsar, Punjab were selected. Level of alcohol consumption is assessed by standardized tool i.e. AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test) in patients and affective correlates are measured by IDTS (Inventory of Drug Taking Situations). The one third of patients (37%) had mild level of alcohol consumption whereas more than half (57%) had moderate hazardous affective correlates. Alcohol consumption and its affective correlates were positively correlated. Physical reasons were commonest affective correlates for alcohol consumption among them in comparison to psychological and social correlates. There was statistically significant relationship of education, religion, type of family and family income at p<0.05. Conclusively this study revealed that both level of alcohol consumption and affective correlates had positive relationship with each other.