Readiness to Change, Medication Adherence and Quality of Life among Alcoholic Patients at Selected Hospitals, Bangalore

Abstract

Background of the Study: Alcohol affects virtually every organ system, and alcoholics are at increasedrisk medical problems. Many factors contribute for poor response to treatment and outcome. The factorslike poor adherence and motivational level by patients with alcohol use disorders (has often been raised inthe literature. However, there has been a limited effort to measure the problem. Hence the investigator feltthat there is need to assess the level of readiness to change, Medication adherence and Quality of life amongalcoholics.Methods: A descriptive Survey research design was adopted for the present study. 100alcohol dependentindividual were recruited by simple random sampling method. The Stage of Change Readiness andTreatment Eagerness Scale, Morisky Medication Adherence ScaleandWHO quality of life-BREFwere usedto assess readiness to change, medication adherence and quality of life. The study was conducted at selectedHospitals, Bangalore.Results: The result shows that majority (73%) of respondents are having low level of readiness to change,medication adherence (67%) and quality of life (56%). A moderate positive correlation was found betweenreadiness to change and medication adherence(r=0.67), a negligible positive correlation found betweenreadiness to change with quality of life (r=0.032) and a high positive correlation was found between qualityof lifewith medication adherence(r=0.71).Conclusion: The study concludes that alcohol dependent individual had low level of readiness to change,medication adherence and quality of life.