A Study to Assess the Mental Health Status and Quality of Life of Patients with Alcohol Dependence Attending at Psychiatric and Medicine OPD of Pravara Rural Hospital, Loni Bk

Abstract

Background: Alcohol consumption stands for world’s third largest risk factor for causing disease and disabilities in middle-income countries. Alcohol is considered as casual factor in 60 types of diseases and injuries. Almost 4% of all the deaths were worldwide reported that are attributed to alcohol greater than that of deaths caused by HIV/AIDS. Alcohol consumption and mental health problems related to alcohol are varying widely all around the world and leading to poor quality of life among alcoholics.

Materials and Methods: Non-experimental descriptive survey design with cross-sectional approach was used to assess the mental health status and quality of life of patients with alcohol dependence and their relationship with the selected demographic variables. The data were collected from 50 patients with alcohol dependence using non-probability purposive sampling technique. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used wherever applied.

Findings: Findings revealed that 52% and 19% of the respondents had mild as well as severe cognitive defects, respectively, and rest 30% had no cognitive defect. In relation to quality of life, 20%, 38%, and 24% of respondents had very poor, poor, and average quality of life, respectively, whereas 10% and 8% of respondents had good and very good quality of life, respectively. There was positive correlation between mental health and quality of life (r = 0.75).

Conclusion: Study findings concluded that majority of patients with alcohol dependence had disturbed mental health status and that led to poor quality of life among them.