Challenges Faced By Parent Due To the Presence of Mentally Handicapped Person in the Family

Substance dependence is a chronic and highly prevalent condition leading to dysfunction in personal, occupational and social area that can occur during periods of heavy alcohol consumption and even following treatment. According to WHO estimates in year 2010, 3.4-6.6 per cent of the world’s population in age group of 15-64 had used an illicit substance at least once in their life (WHO, 2012). Illicit drug use globally led deaths in range of 99,000 to 253,000 in the year 2010 (WHO, 2012). Recent report of WHO (2014) suggests that 38.3% of the global population consume alcohol and on an average, an individual over 15 years of age consume 6.2 litres of alcohol annually. Thus drug dependence has become a worldwide crisis as it is associated with adverse social and economic consequences as well as physical and mental illness.

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THE INFLUENCE OF HEAVY ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION ON HIV INFECTION AND PROGRESSION

Journal of Biological System ◽

10.1142/s0218339009003083 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 17 (04) ◽

pp. 685-712 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

G. THOMAS ◽

E. M. LUNGU

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Demographic Data ◽

African Region ◽

Heavy Alcohol ◽

Infected People ◽

Aids Epidemic ◽

Heavy Alcohol Consumption ◽

The Impact ◽

Global Population ◽

Hiv Aids

The Sub-Sahara African region is inhabited by only 11% of the global population, but is home to 67% of the total HIV infected people and accounts for more than 70% of global AIDS deaths. In this study, we construct a mathematical model to investigate the effect of heavy alcohol consumption on the transmission and progression of HIV/AIDS, and to assess the impact of heavy drinkers on HIV/AIDS related social and health problems such as TB case load and number of orphans. Using demographic data for Botswana, we have shown that if more HIV/AIDS individuals had been de-addicted from heavy alcohol consumption, the severity of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the impact of HIV/AIDS on the number of TB cases and orphans would have been significantly less than is the case currently. The study points to the vital need for counseling and education about the evils of heavy alcohol consumption and for alcohol de-addiction programmes.

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Assessing efficacy of a retention in care intervention among HIV patients with depression, anxiety, heavy alcohol consumption and illicit drug use

AIDS ◽

10.1097/01.aids.0000489140.60475.2c ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 30 (11) ◽

pp. 1861

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Drug Use ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Illicit Drug Use ◽

Retention In Care ◽

Hiv Patients ◽

Heavy Alcohol ◽

Care Intervention ◽

Heavy Alcohol Consumption

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Effect of Alcohol Dependence on QTc Interval - A Case Control Study

Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare ◽

10.18410/jebmh/2021/288 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (20) ◽

pp. 1521-1525

Author(s):

Kadappa Jaligidad ◽

Ajinkya Dilip Auti ◽

Appu Patil

Keyword(s):

Heart Failure ◽

Alcohol Dependence ◽

Case Control Study ◽

Severe Heart Failure ◽

Case Control ◽

Qtc Interval ◽

Age Group ◽

Heavy Alcohol ◽

Heavy Alcohol Consumption ◽

Control Study

BACKGROUND Deleterious effects on the cardiovascular system like alcoholic cardiomyopathy and severe heart failure has been seen in those who are having chronic or heavy alcohol consumption. Majority of the clinical studies were based on selected group of patients like severe heart failure, as compared to that, the study among asymptomatic alcoholics were not well studied. Chronic and heavy alcohol consumption leads to adverse effects like arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation and life-threatening re-entrant ventricular arrhythmias which can be predicted by studying QTc interval. The purpose of this study was to observe the effect of alcohol dependence on QTc interval. METHODS This is a Hospital based case control study conducted among patients admitted in SNMC & HSK hospital with diagnosis as Alcohol Dependence Syndrome (ADS) according to International classification of diseases (ICD) 10 criteria from October 2020 to December 2020. 30 alcohol dependence cases and 30 age matched controls above 18 years of age were selected. The ECG was recorded in lying down and resting position. The ECG results were analysed for QTc interval. Sample size estimation was done using open epi Software version 2.3.1. RESULTS Among the 30 cases, 53.3 % had prolonged QTc interval. Out of these, 11 were in the age group of 18 - 35 years, 17 were in 36 - 55 years while 2 were in the age group > 55 years while in 30 controls only 1 had prolonged QTc in the age group of 36 - 55 years. CONCLUSIONS A prolonged QTc interval was observed in 16 out of 30 cases which provides the evidence, that prolonged QTc interval was significant in alcohol dependence patients. Hence, early detection of ECG changes like prolonged QTc interval will help in preventing the adverse cardiovascular events and comorbidities associated with it. KEYWORDS QTc Interval, ECG, Alcohol Dependence

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Assessing efficacy of a retention-in-care intervention among HIV patients with depression, anxiety, heavy alcohol consumption and illicit drug use

AIDS ◽

10.1097/qad.0000000000001019 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 30 (7) ◽

pp. 1111-1119 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Lytt I. Gardner ◽

Gary Marks ◽

Lokesh Shahani ◽

Thomas P. Giordano ◽

Tracey E. Wilson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Drug Use ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Illicit Drug Use ◽

Retention In Care ◽

Hiv Patients ◽

Heavy Alcohol ◽

Care Intervention ◽

Heavy Alcohol Consumption

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Heavy alcohol consumption before and after negative life events in late mid-life: longitudinal latent trajectory analyses

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health ◽

10.1136/jech-2021-217204 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. jech-2021-217204

Author(s):

Neda Agahi ◽

Lucas Morin ◽

Marianna Virtanen ◽

Jaana Pentti ◽

Johan Fritzell ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Life Events ◽

Negative Life Events ◽

Heavy Drinking ◽

Severe Illness ◽

Heavy Alcohol ◽

Latent Trajectory ◽

The Family ◽

Before And After ◽

Heavy Alcohol Consumption

BackgroundPeople who experience negative life events report more heavy alcohol consumption compared with people without these experiences, but little is known about patterns of change within this group. This study aims to identify trajectories of heavy alcohol consumption before and after experiencing either divorce, or severe illness or death in the family. Furthermore, the aim is to examine characteristics of individuals belonging to each trajectory.MethodsLongitudinal study of public sector employees from the Finnish Retirement and Aging Study with up to 5 years of annual follow-ups (n=6783; eligible sample n=1393). Divorce and severe illness or death in the family represented negative life events. Heavy alcohol consumption was categorised as >14 units/week.ResultsBased on latent trajectory analysis, three trajectories of heavy drinking were identified both for divorce and for severe illness or death in the family: ‘No heavy drinking’ (82% illness/death, 75% divorce), ‘Constant heavy drinking’ (10% illness/death, 13% divorce) and ‘Decreasing heavy drinking’ (7% illness/death, 12% divorce). Constant heavy drinkers surrounding illness or death in the family were more likely to be men, report depression and anxiety and to smoke than those with no heavy drinking. Constant heavy drinkers surrounding divorce were also more likely to be men and to report depression compared with those with no heavy drinking.ConclusionsMost older workers who experience divorce or severe illness or death in the family have stable drinking patterns regarding heavy alcohol consumption, that is, most do not initiate or stop heavy drinking.

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Peregrinação Acadêmica: A mulher Romeira do Bom Jesus da Lapa

10.31012/978-65-86854-04-6 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Sandra Célia Coelho Gomes da Silva

Keyword(s):

Gender Identity ◽

Social Reproduction ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Female Gender ◽

Age Group ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The West ◽

Patriarchal Family ◽

The Family ◽

West Part

This work is the result of the doctoral thesis entitled Pilgrimage of Bom Jesus da Lapa: Social Reproduction of the Family and Female Gender Identity, specifically the second chapter that talks about women in the Pilgrimage of Bom Jesus da Lapa, emphasizing gender relations, analyzing the location of the pilgrimage as a social reproduction of the patriarchal family and female gender identity. The research scenario is the Bom Jesus da Lapa Pilgrimage, which has been held for 329 years, in that city, located in the West part of Bahia. The research participants are pilgrim women who are in the age group between 50 and 70 years old and have participated, for more than five consecutive years in the Bom Jesus da Lapa Pilgrimage, belonging to five Brazilian states (Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Espírito Santo and Goiás) that register a higher frequency of attendance at this religious event. We used bibliographic, qualitative, field and documentary research and data collection as our methodology; we applied participant observation and semi-structured interviews as a technique. We concluded that the Bom Jesus da Lapa Pilgrimage is a location for family social reproduction and the female gender identity, observing a contrast in the resignification of the role and in the profile of the pilgrim women from Bom Jesus da Lapa, alternating between permanence and the transformation of gender identity coming from patriarchy.

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Socio-Economic Profile of Farm Households in Cotton Belt of Rural Punjab

Indian Journal of Economics and Development ◽

10.35716/ijed/ns20-089 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 144-151

Keyword(s):

Secondary Level ◽

Farm Households ◽

General Category ◽

Age Group ◽

The Family ◽

Working Age ◽

Economic Profile ◽

Land Holdings ◽

Average Size ◽

Cotton Belt

This paper examined the socio-economic profile of farm households in the cotton belt of Rural Punjab. The result revealed that as a whole, more than two-thirds fall in the working-age group of 15-59 years. The average size of the family worked out to be 5.74 and the average size of owned land holdings was 11.50 acres. The data highlights that 34.96 percent were earners, 31.39 percent were earning dependents and 33.65 percent of the persons were dependents. The major proportion (88.46 percent) of total sampled households followed Sikhism and as many as 87.50 percent were from the general category. About 23 percent of the sampled persons were illiterate and literacy levels were found to be positively linked with the size of landholdings. About 34 percent of the heads of sampled farmer households were illiterate and the majority of the heads of sampled farmer households had education below secondary level. None of the heads among marginal farmers had obtained education up to graduation level, whereas, this proportion was 7.41 for the large farmers. The study points out that overall only 11.54 percent of the sampled farm households read the newspaper. There is a need for effective measures which could enhance the educational and awareness levels of farmers and their family members for raising their levels of living.

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Socio-Economic Profile of Labour Households in Rural Punjab

Indian Journal of Economics and Development ◽

10.35716/ijed/ns20-022 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 306-311

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Good Condition ◽

Family Type ◽

Age Group ◽

Employment Opportunities ◽

Nuclear Families ◽

The Family ◽

Working Age ◽

Average Condition ◽

Economic Profile

The present paper is an attempt to analyze the socio-economic profile of the labour households in rural Punjab. The study revealed that majority of rural labour households belonged to the scheduled caste category. As far as the distribution of sampled rural labour households according to the family type was concerned, it was found that 46.42 percent of the total rural labour households had nuclear families, while the remaining 53.58 percent have joint families. Majority of the rural labourers were living in semi-pucca houses. Further, if we look at the housing condition, 54.72 percent of rural labourers owned the houses of average condition, 40.19 percent owned good condition households and 5.09percent owned dilapidated houses. The analysis further showed that as many as 20.35percentof the sampled labour population was illiterate. A few persons from sampled labour households educated above matric. Although large majority of the sampled labour population were from the working-age group yet the ratio of dependents was high among rural labour households. This was due to lower employment opportunities in rural areas.

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Coronary deaths during Midsummer festival in Finland: miseries of long, light nights

European Journal of Epidemiology ◽

10.1007/s10654-021-00744-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Simo Näyhä

Keyword(s):

Coronary Heart Disease ◽

Heart Disease ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Negative Binomial ◽

Negative Binomial Regression ◽

Adverse Consequence ◽

Heavy Alcohol ◽

Summer Peak ◽

Binomial Regression ◽

Heavy Alcohol Consumption

AbstractThis paper examines whether the anomalous summer peak in deaths from coronary heart disease (CHD) in Finland could be attributed to adverse effects of the Midsummer festival and alcohol consumption during the festival. Daily deaths from CHD and alcohol poisoning in Finland, 1961–2014, that occurred during the 7 days centering on Midsummer Day were analysed in relation to deaths during 14 to 4 days before and 4 to 14 after Midsummer Day. Daily counts of deaths from CHD among persons aged 35–64 years were regressed on days around the Midsummer period by negative binomial regression. Mortality from CHD was highest on Midsummer Day (RR 1.25 (95% confidence interval 1.12–1.31), one day after the peak in deaths from alcohol poisonings. RR for CHD on Midsummer Day was particulary high (RR = 1.43; 1.09–1.86) in the 2000s, 30% of deaths being attributable to that day. In conclusion, the anomalous and prominent summer peak in deaths from CHD in Finland is an adverse consequence of the Midsummer festival. The most likely underlying reason is heavy alcohol consumption during the festival period, especially on Midsummer Eve. In the 2000s, one third of deaths from CHD on Midsummer Day are preventable.

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