A CORRELATIONAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE INEFFECTIVE COPING AND INCREASED PROBABILITY AMONG CLIENTS IN ALCOHOL RELAPSE

Abstract

A correlational study to assess the ineffective coping, increased probability of alcohol relapse among clients who admitted in selected de-addiction centres in Tamil Nadu. The Correlation descriptive design was adopted for the study. Non-probability purposive sampling technique was used to select 100 clients undergoing alcohol de-addiction program as sample. Socio-demographic data was collected by using interview schedule. Alcohol precipitant inventory tool and Coping behavior inventory tool were used to assess level of relapse and level of coping. The major findings of the study are the majority 40% of alcohol relapsed clients were at the age of 41-50 years and 57% of them had primary and high school education. 56% of them had the family history of alcoholism and 91% of them had onset of alcohol intake at the early age of 16-30 years. 89% of them had relapse within a year having relapse more than two times.76% of them had month’s duration of relapse. With regard to situation made you consume alcohol the highest 96% of the samples were urge and craving, 90% of the samples were having positive emotions, 78% of the samples were negative emotions and 12% were having other reasons. All 100% of relapsed clients had relapse score above 50 indicate that they are at high rate of relapse and all 100% of them had coping level score above 70 indicate that they were having inadequate coping, Level of coping mean score (96.3) and relapse mean score (63.4) have significant positive correlation since the obtained ‘r’ value is 1.76. There were significant association between level of coping with selected variable such as duration of alcohol consumption (in years), number of relapse in years, duration of relapse, coping and situation made you to consume alcohol, average amount of alcohol intake per day, stress at working place and job performance. The study result showed that Most of them were falling in relapse within a year, their relapse in high risk situations was very high and their coping level was inadequate. There was positive correlation between relapse and ineffective coping.