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Perceive Family Environment among Parents, Spouses and Siblings of Alcohol Dependence Patients: A Comparative Study

Narendra Kumar Singh*, Dipanjan Bhattacharjee, Nishant Goyal, Sanjay Kumar Munda and S.H. Nizamie

Department of Psychiatric Social Work, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Jharkhand, India

*Corresponding Author:
Narendra Kumar Singh
Department of Psychiatric Social Work
Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke
Ranchi-834006, Jharkhand, India
Tel: +91-651-245115/+91-651-2450822
E-mail: narendrapsw@gmail.com

Received May 19, 2012; Accepted June 23, 2012; Published June 26, 2012

Citation: Singh NK, Bhattacharjee D, Goyal N, Munda SK, Nizamie SH (2012) Perceive Family Environment among Parents, Spouses and Siblings of Alcohol Dependence Patients: A Comparative Study. J Addict Res Ther 3:126. doi:10.4172/2155-6105.1000126

Copyright: © 2012 Singh NK, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

Background:
The family is the primary unit of the society to take care the material, physical and emotional needs of people. Drug addiction and alcoholism causes significant intimidation to entire family system and the family environment tends to be become strained because of this problem. This study was carried out to know how the parents, siblings and spouses of individuals with alcohol addiction perceive the quality of family environment.
Methods:
In this study 90 participants (30 parents, 30 spouses and 30 siblings) of the patients diagnosed with alcohol dependence syndrome were selected purposively. Tools like socio-demographic data sheet, Family Environment Scale (FES), and General Health Questionnaire- 12 were used for data collection.
Limitation:
The present study has some limitations e.g. small sample size, samples were collected from a single place and impact of culture was not controlled, influence of psychosocial factors on family interaction pattern and family environment (as stigma, express emotions, codependency etc.) were not assessed.
Conclusion:
Spouses revealed lower level of family environment in the domain of expressiveness as compared to parents and siblings of alcohol dependence. Finding also indicated that Parents and spouses group reported to have more negative experiences in the domain of control as compared to siblings of alcohol dependence.

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