Vaishnavi Ramanujam, Karthik Murugan Selvaraj, Balakrishnan Ramasamy, Sathianathan Ramanathan
Department of Psychiatry, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai 600116, India.
J Addict. 2017;2017:8934712. doi: 10.1155/2017/8934712. Epub 2017 May 21.
Alcoholism is a major threat to the individual as well as the society and the maximum burden of the illness is borne by the family.
The study is aimed at assessing the pattern of burden on the caregivers of alcohol dependent patients and at assessing the relationship between the severity of dependence and the burden on caregivers.
Cross-sectional descriptive study conducted in the Department of Psychiatry, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute.
A cross-sectional assessment was done in 200 patients with alcohol dependence and their caregivers. The severity of dependence and the pattern of burden on caregivers were assessed.
The data thus collected was analyzed using SPSS version 20.
The study demonstrates that caregivers of alcohol dependent patients reported significant objective burden and subjective burden. Furthermore, the severity of alcohol dependence and the domains of burden such as financial burden, disruption of family interaction, and disruption of family routine activities were positively correlated with high level of significance.
The current study has illustrated that all the caregivers experienced significant amount of burden which has to be addressed for better treatment outcome of the patients.
酗酒对个人和社会都是重大威胁，疾病的最大负担由家庭承担。
本研究旨在评估酒精依赖患者照料者的负担模式，并评估依赖严重程度与照料者负担之间的关系。
在斯里兰卡拉马钱德拉医学院及研究所精神病科进行的横断面描述性研究。
对200名酒精依赖患者及其照料者进行横断面评估。评估了依赖的严重程度和照料者的负担模式。
使用SPSS 20版对收集到的数据进行分析。
研究表明，酒精依赖患者的照料者报告了显著的客观负担和主观负担。此外，酒精依赖的严重程度与经济负担、家庭互动中断和家庭日常活动中断等负担领域呈高度显著正相关。
当前研究表明，所有照料者都承受了大量负担，为使患者获得更好的治疗效果，必须解决这些负担。
