Psychiatric morbidity in family members of alcohol dependence patients
Background: There is a paucity of Indian studies assessing psychiatric morbidity among family members of subjects with alcohol use disorder. Aim: To study psychiatric morbidity in wives/life partners and children of alcohol-dependent patients. Materials and Methods: Fifty consecutive index patients...
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| description | Background: There is a paucity of Indian studies assessing psychiatric morbidity among family members of subjects with alcohol use disorder. Aim: To study psychiatric morbidity in wives/life partners and children of alcohol-dependent patients. Materials and Methods: Fifty consecutive index patients diagnosed to be alcohol dependent according to the International Classification of Diseases-10 classification of mental and behavioral disorders diagnostic criterion for research reporting to psychiatry department were taken. The study was conducted on family members of alcohol-dependent patients who were enrolled in the study as subjects. These included both their children and spouses and they were evaluated for any psychopathology using M. I. N. I. AND M. I. N. I.-KID scales. Results: Out of 50 spouses and 67 children enrolled in the study group. Sixty-eight percent had psychiatric morbidity in spouses which include 34% had major depressive episodes. Spouses living in the nuclear family and illiterate had more psychiatric morbidity. Total psychiatric morbidity in children above 18 years was 56.25%, maximum being in alcohol and substance dependence. Total psychiatric morbidity in children between 6 years and 18 years was 31.37%, maximum being in generalized anxiety disorder (11.76%). Conclusion: Spouses of subjects with alcohol dependence have a high prevalence of psychiatric morbidity. Spouses living in the nuclear family had a more major depressive episode and generalized anxiety disorder. Psychiatric morbidity was more in illiterate spouses. Psychiatric morbidity was also high in children. Female children between 6 years and 18 years had more generalized anxiety disorder than males. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e4e40b7e34734e2f93699c3ae0de38a92022-12-22T03:32:22ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsIndustrial Psychiatry Journal0972-67480976-27952022-01-0131230631210.4103/ipj.ipj_179_20Psychiatric morbidity in family members of alcohol dependence patientsRahul SinghEkram GoyalSuprakash ChaudhuryAlka PuriaSantosh KumarAjay KumarBackground: There is a paucity of Indian studies assessing psychiatric morbidity among family members of subjects with alcohol use disorder. Aim: To study psychiatric morbidity in wives/life partners and children of alcohol-dependent patients. Materials and Methods: Fifty consecutive index patients diagnosed to be alcohol dependent according to the International Classification of Diseases-10 classification of mental and behavioral disorders diagnostic criterion for research reporting to psychiatry department were taken. The study was conducted on family members of alcohol-dependent patients who were enrolled in the study as subjects. These included both their children and spouses and they were evaluated for any psychopathology using M. I. N. I. AND M. I. N. I.-KID scales. Results: Out of 50 spouses and 67 children enrolled in the study group. Sixty-eight percent had psychiatric morbidity in spouses which include 34% had major depressive episodes. Spouses living in the nuclear family and illiterate had more psychiatric morbidity. Total psychiatric morbidity in children above 18 years was 56.25%, maximum being in alcohol and substance dependence. Total psychiatric morbidity in children between 6 years and 18 years was 31.37%, maximum being in generalized anxiety disorder (11.76%). Conclusion: Spouses of subjects with alcohol dependence have a high prevalence of psychiatric morbidity. Spouses living in the nuclear family had a more major depressive episode and generalized anxiety disorder. Psychiatric morbidity was more in illiterate spouses. Psychiatric morbidity was also high in children. Female children between 6 years and 18 years had more generalized anxiety disorder than males.http://www.industrialpsychiatry.org/article.asp?issn=0972-6748;year=2022;volume=31;issue=2;spage=306;epage=312;aulast=Singhalcohol dependencealcohol use disordersdepressiondysthymiageneralized anxiety disorderpsychiatric co-morbidity |
| spellingShingle | Rahul Singh Ekram Goyal Suprakash Chaudhury Alka Puria Santosh Kumar Ajay Kumar Psychiatric morbidity in family members of alcohol dependence patients Industrial Psychiatry Journal alcohol dependence alcohol use disorders depression dysthymia generalized anxiety disorder psychiatric co-morbidity |
| title | Psychiatric morbidity in family members of alcohol dependence patients |
| title_full | Psychiatric morbidity in family members of alcohol dependence patients |
| title_fullStr | Psychiatric morbidity in family members of alcohol dependence patients |
| title_full_unstemmed | Psychiatric morbidity in family members of alcohol dependence patients |
| title_short | Psychiatric morbidity in family members of alcohol dependence patients |
| title_sort | psychiatric morbidity in family members of alcohol dependence patients |
| topic | alcohol dependence alcohol use disorders depression dysthymia generalized anxiety disorder psychiatric co-morbidity |
| url | http://www.industrialpsychiatry.org/article.asp?issn=0972-6748;year=2022;volume=31;issue=2;spage=306;epage=312;aulast=Singh |
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