Medical and social implications of alcohol use among adult women in a rural area of Ranchi, Jharkhand: A cross-sectional study
Introduction: The harmful use of alcohol is increasing at a huge pace leading to the occurrence of multiple diseases and has become a leading risk factor for global burden of diseases. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the health profile of adult women and to find out the medic...
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| description | Introduction:
The harmful use of alcohol is increasing at a huge pace leading to the occurrence of multiple diseases and has become a leading risk factor for global burden of diseases.
Aims and Objectives:
The aim of this study is to assess the health profile of adult women and to find out the medical and social effects of alcohol consumption.
Methodology:
A cross-sectional study was conducted in the rural field practice area, Ormanjhi of RIMS, Ranchi, for a duration of 27 months (September 2016 to November 2018) among 336 women by multistage random sampling. A pretested semi-structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Templates were generated in MS Excel sheet and analysis of data was done using SPSS software (20.0).
Results:
The mean BMI of the study subjects was 21.62 ± 3.33 kg/m2. Anaemia was present in 42.6% of the women, 10.4% women were hypertensive and 9.2% were suffering from diabetes. The association between alcohol consumption and occurrence of co-morbidities was found insignificant. The social effects of alcoholism varied ranging from going into debts seen in 35.42% of the women; 62.5% of the women were criticised about their drinking habit by relatives or children. About 9.5% of the women were found to consume alcohol during their last pregnancy, and among women who were on regular intake of alcohol even during pregnancy, majority (65.62%) of them delivered by normal vaginal delivery.
Conclusion:
Alcohol consumption among females caused several adverse social consequences without any significant effect on health. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-55ff7811bf8441c1bccd77fe66468bf82024-11-11T11:04:04ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care2249-48632278-71352023-02-0112232032510.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1562_22Medical and social implications of alcohol use among adult women in a rural area of Ranchi, Jharkhand: A cross-sectional studySwati ShikhaMithilesh KumarVivek KashyapIntroduction: The harmful use of alcohol is increasing at a huge pace leading to the occurrence of multiple diseases and has become a leading risk factor for global burden of diseases. Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the health profile of adult women and to find out the medical and social effects of alcohol consumption. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the rural field practice area, Ormanjhi of RIMS, Ranchi, for a duration of 27 months (September 2016 to November 2018) among 336 women by multistage random sampling. A pretested semi-structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Templates were generated in MS Excel sheet and analysis of data was done using SPSS software (20.0). Results: The mean BMI of the study subjects was 21.62 ± 3.33 kg/m2. Anaemia was present in 42.6% of the women, 10.4% women were hypertensive and 9.2% were suffering from diabetes. The association between alcohol consumption and occurrence of co-morbidities was found insignificant. The social effects of alcoholism varied ranging from going into debts seen in 35.42% of the women; 62.5% of the women were criticised about their drinking habit by relatives or children. About 9.5% of the women were found to consume alcohol during their last pregnancy, and among women who were on regular intake of alcohol even during pregnancy, majority (65.62%) of them delivered by normal vaginal delivery. Conclusion: Alcohol consumption among females caused several adverse social consequences without any significant effect on health.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1562_22alcoholmedicalruralsocialwomen |
| spellingShingle | Swati Shikha Mithilesh Kumar Vivek Kashyap Medical and social implications of alcohol use among adult women in a rural area of Ranchi, Jharkhand: A cross-sectional study Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care alcohol medical rural social women |
| title | Medical and social implications of alcohol use among adult women in a rural area of Ranchi, Jharkhand: A cross-sectional study |
| title_full | Medical and social implications of alcohol use among adult women in a rural area of Ranchi, Jharkhand: A cross-sectional study |
| title_fullStr | Medical and social implications of alcohol use among adult women in a rural area of Ranchi, Jharkhand: A cross-sectional study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Medical and social implications of alcohol use among adult women in a rural area of Ranchi, Jharkhand: A cross-sectional study |
| title_short | Medical and social implications of alcohol use among adult women in a rural area of Ranchi, Jharkhand: A cross-sectional study |
| title_sort | medical and social implications of alcohol use among adult women in a rural area of ranchi jharkhand a cross sectional study |
| topic | alcohol medical rural social women |
| url | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1562_22 |
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