Background of the Study: Alcohol affects virtually every organ system, and alcoholics are at increased risk medical problems. Many factors contribute for poor response to treatment and outcome. The factors like poor adherence and motivational level by patients with alcohol use disorders (has often been raised in the literature. However, there has been a limited effort to measure the problem. Hence the investigator felt that there is need to assess the level of readiness to change, Medication adherence and Quality of life among alcoholics.Methods: A descriptive Survey research design was adopted for the present study. 100alcohol dependent individual were recruited by simple random sampling method. The Stage of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale, Morisky Medication Adherence ScaleandWHO quality of life-BREFwere used to assess readiness to change, medication adherence and quality of life. The study was conducted at selected Hospitals, 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 between readiness to change and medication adherence(r=0.67), a negligible positive correlation found between readiness to change with quality of life (r=0.032) and a high positive correlation was found between quality of 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.