1Nursing Tutor,
2Assistant Professor,
3Professor,
*Corresponding author: Mr. Mahalingam Venkateshan, Assistant Professor, Himalayan College of Nursing, SRHU, Jolly Grant, Doiwala (Post) Dehradun, U.. arakhand, India, 248140, Email: mvenkatesh@srhu.edu.in, milkymaha2007@gmail.com
The impact of parental alcoholism on adolescents is a psycho-social issue that urgently requires research and public awareness.
The aim of this study was to find out the prevalence of psychosocial problems of adolescents of alcoholic parents.
Case Control observational design was selected for this study. Ninety adolescents were systematically (every 5th sample) selected from the study population. Consecutively 41 adolescents of alcoholic parents were retained in the Case group and 49 adolescents of non-alcoholic parents were in the Control group. The adolescents between 15–19 years of age were considered to be the study subjects. Standardized (r=.97) Pediatric Symptom checklist was used to collect information regarding psychosocial problems from the adolescents.
Study results show that every fifth adolescent of alcoholic parents was found to have severe psychosocial problems. Also the logistic regressional figures state that adolescents of alcoholic parents were two and half times more at risk of developing psychosocial problems than the adolescent of non-alcoholic parents.
Parental alcoholism has a negative impact on the psychosocial well-being of the adolescents, and they also face a greater challenge in adjusting to the environment and to society. They are highly vulnerable for developing psychosocial problems i.e. emotional, behavioral and cognitive. Thus parental alcoholism hampers the normal psychosocial development of a child.
Adolescents, Impact, Parental alcoholism, psychosocial problems
