Association of severity of alcohol abuse with socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with Alcohol Dependence Syndrome (ADS)

Pages: 423-426
Masood Maqbool and K. S. Sengar (Department of Clinical Psychology, Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences (RINPAS), Ranchi, Jharkhand)

Alcohol is one of the leading causes of deaths in the world and is thus posing a potential threat to modern society particularly with respect to the adolescent population. Alcohol abuse also creates deficits in different cognitive functions and impairs socio-occupational functioning. Many researchers have found an association between different socio-demographic and clinical details and severity of alcohol dependence to understand factors that can help in curbing the menace. The current study is an attempt to find associates of the severity of alcohol abuse and a total of 69 patients, with the diagnosis of alcohol dependence syndrome, were assessed on Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire (SADQ) and various socio-demographic and clinical details were gathered. Pearson’s correlation shows that the severity of alcohol dependence was negatively associated with education, patient’s income, family income and age of first use of alcohol. Finally with much larger sample size and considering many other variables to find the association with the severity of the alcohol abuse so that predictive variables will be checked as a preventive measure.