1Student, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, S.G.L. Nursing College, Semi Jalandhar, Punjab
2Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, S.G.L. Nursing College, Semi Jalandhar, Punjab
3Assistant Professor, Department of Child Health Pediatric Nursing, S.G.L. Nursing College, Semi Jalandhar, Punjab
Online published on 25 March, 2015.
Alcoholism has been an important global concern. Every year, the harmful use of alcohol kills 2.5 million people, including 320000 young people between 15 and 29 years of age. The family members acts as caregivers who provide care to the alcoholics and they are at great risk for developing burden because of poor family communication, lack of mutual warmth among family members, poor role functioning, economic deprivation, sexual dysfunction etc.
To assess the level of burden among the caregivers of alcoholics.
To find out the association between level of burden among the caregivers of alcoholic and their selected socio-demographic variables
To plan and provide an information booklet regarding burden and its management among the caregivers of alcoholics
Design: Non- experimental (Descriptive Design)
Setting: Selected rural areas, District Jalandhar, Punjab
Population: Caregivers of alcoholics in selected rural areas, District Jalandhar, Punjab
Sample size: 200 caregivers of alcoholics selected from selected rural areas of district Jalandhar Punjab
Sampling techniques: Convenience Sampling Technique
Findings of the study has shown that the majority of the caregivers of alcoholics 131 (65.5%) were suffering from severe level of burden and minority of caregivers 11 (5.5%) were suffering from very severe level of burden.
Level of Burden, Caregivers of alcoholics
