Association between Socio-Demographic Variables and Alcohol Dependency among Alcoholics attending Alcohol Deaddiction Camp Held at Gundlupet, Karnataka, India Smitha M.C.1, Somashekar M. P.2,*, Nagendra3 1Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, JSS Medical College, SS Nagar, Mysuru 2HOD, PG Department of Social Work, JSS College of Arts, Commerce and Science, B.N. Road, Mysuru 3Medico Social Worker, Department of Community Medicine, JSS Medical College, SS Nagar, Mysuru *Corresponding Author: M. P. Somashekar, HOD, PG Department of Social Work, JSS College of Arts, Commerce and Science, B.N. Road, Mysuru. E-mail: mswsomashekar@gmail.com
Online published on 8 March, 2019. Abstract Introduction Alcohol drinking is common practice in many parts of the world including India. It leads to serious social, physical and mental consequences as per the survey of WHO 2011. Many studies have shown that alcohol use exposes the individual to acute health conditions like road traffic accidents and risk of acquiring chronic diseases. Hence the present study was conducted to determine the association between socio-demographic variables with severity of alcohol dependence among the chronic alcoholics. Methodology It is a cross sectional study conducted at Gundlupet, rural part of Mysuru District. Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire (SADQ) was used to measure the severity of alcohol dependency among the chronic alcoholics. Information on socio-demographic variables was obtained by a self-administered questionnaire. The obtained data was entered in Microsoft excel and analyzed using SPSS version 23. Descriptive statistics and Chi-Square analysis was used to find the association between socio-demographic variables and severity of alcohol dependency. Results 78% of alcoholics had Severe Alcohol dependency, 8% had Moderate and 4% had Mild alcohol dependency. Residence and Education were found to be significantly associated with severity of alcohol dependency. Conclusion Morethan ¾ of the alcoholics are having severe alcohol dependency while remaining are having mild and moderate alcohol dependency. Place of Residence and Education were found to be significantly associated with severity of Alcohol dependency. Top Keywords Alcohol dependency, Socio-demographic variables, Rural India. Top |