1Student,
2Assistant Professor,
3Assistant Professor,
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
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
