19 / 32
Page 60
Notes:
International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience | ISSN: 1522-4821 | Volume: 20
July 25-26, 2018 | Vancouver, Canada
Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing
14
th
World Congress on
Mental Health and Wellbeing
5
th
World Congress on
&
Level of alcohol consumption and its affective correlates among hospitalized patients
Amanpreet Kaur
1
and
Tarandeep Kaur
2
1
Khalsa College of Nursing, India
2
Davendra College of Nursing, India
E
verybody now-a-days are facing stressful situations and are unable to cope with too much stress. They start taking support
of substance and alcohol and get addicted. Due to which they meet with accidents and suffer with many medical problems
in chronic condition and ultimately are admitted in hospitals. Even after they do not leave the alcohol drinks. Sometimes they
increase the amount of alcohol to get relief from pain and other stressful conditions. The aim of the present study was to explore
the level of alcohol consumption with its affective correlates among patients. Using purposive sampling, 100 patients admitted
in orthopedic and medicine wards admitted in Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Amritsar, Punjab were selected. Level of alcohol
consumption is assessed by standardized tool i.e. AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test) in patients and affective
correlates are measured by IDTS (Inventory of Drug Taking Situations). The one third of patients (37%) had mild level of
alcohol consumption whereas more than half (57%) had moderate hazardous affective correlates. Alcohol consumption and its
affective correlates were positively correlated. Physical reasons were commonest affective correlates for alcohol consumption
among them in comparison to psychological and social correlates. There was statistically significant relationship of education,
religion, type of family and family income at p<0.05. Conclusively this study revealed that both level of alcohol consumption
and affective correlates had positive relationship with each other.
Biography
Amanpreet Kaur, PhD, is a Professor and has been teaching nursing research, psychiatric nursing and advanced nursing practice at Khalsa College of Nursing,
Amritsar, Punjab (India) since 2007. Before coming to this institute, she has worked as an RN in Burns & plastics unit in Christian Medical College & Hospital,
Ludhiana. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in psychiatric nursing from Baba Farid University, Faridkot and PhD from Rajiv Gandhi University of
Health Sciences, Bangalore. Her primary research interests on mentally ill patients, drug addicts, baggers, slum dwellers and prisoners. She is passionate to study
more about healthcare needs and challenges of vulnerable population. She received Mrs Sarla Kapoor award for best research paper presentation from ISPN
(Indian Society of Psychiatric Nurses). She is the author of two books and book chapters. She has presented at both local and national levels and has authored
several articles for publication.
amanpreet27@ymail.comAmanpreet Kaur et al., IJEMHHR 2018, Volume: 20
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C3-017