Eashwar V M Anantha, Gopalakrishnan S, Umadevi R, Geetha A
Department of Community Medicine, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chrompet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Department of Community Medicine, Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research, Othakalmandapam, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2019 Jun;8(6):2029-2035. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_226_19.
In India, though the prevalence of alcohol consumption is low, nearly half of the alcoholic consumers fall into the category of hazardous drinking. There have been rapid changes in the trends and pattern of alcohol use in India.
The study was carried to find out the pattern of alcohol consumption, associated morbidities, and its association with related factors in an urban area of Tamil Nadu.
This is a descriptive cross-sectional study done among adult males >18 years of age in Kancheepuram district Tamil Nadu. Among the 400 study participants selected by simple random sampling, 156 were found to be alcohol consumers. A pre-tested structured questionnaire and Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) was used to identify the pattern of alcohol consumption and the associated health morbidities. Data analysis was done using SPSS version 22.
It was found that 67% of alcohol consumers had a problematic drinking pattern with 52.5% having a hazardous/harmful drinking pattern and 14.7% were found to be dependent alcoholics. The associated factors of problem drinking among the alcohol consumers were illiteracy, having a history of tobacco use, being unmarried/divorced and consuming alcohol in wine shops. The health morbidities that were found to be associated with alcohol consumption were hypertension, gastritis/peptic ulcer disease, and psychiatric illnesses.
More than half of the alcohol consumers had a problematic drinking pattern, which is an alarming public health problem. All the current drinkers in a community have to be screened for problematic drinking pattern and it has to be supplemented with referral services, health promotion, behavioral change communication to the alcohol consumer, and his family members.
在印度，尽管酒精消费的流行率较低，但近一半的饮酒者属于危险饮酒类别。印度的饮酒趋势和模式发生了迅速变化。
开展这项研究以了解泰米尔纳德邦一个城市地区的酒精消费模式、相关发病率及其与相关因素的关联。
这是一项描述性横断面研究，在泰米尔纳德邦坎契普尔姆区对18岁以上的成年男性进行。在通过简单随机抽样选取的400名研究参与者中，发现156人是饮酒者。使用预先测试的结构化问卷和酒精使用障碍识别测试（AUDIT）来确定酒精消费模式和相关的健康发病率。使用SPSS 22版进行数据分析。
发现67%的饮酒者有问题饮酒模式，其中52.5%有危险/有害饮酒模式，14.7%被发现是酒精依赖者。饮酒者中问题饮酒的相关因素是文盲、有吸烟史、未婚/离婚以及在酒馆饮酒。发现与酒精消费相关的健康发病率是高血压、胃炎/消化性溃疡疾病和精神疾病。
超过一半的饮酒者有问题饮酒模式，这是一个令人担忧的公共卫生问题。必须对社区中所有当前饮酒者进行问题饮酒模式筛查，并辅以转诊服务、健康促进、向饮酒者及其家庭成员进行行为改变沟通。
