Hazardous drinking problems in family members of problem-drinker patients in Chinese general hospitals

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 633-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun-Fang Tsai ◽  
Ching-Yen Chen ◽  
Yea-Pyng Lin ◽  
Mei-Chu Tsai ◽  
Chih-Erh Weng
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Hazardous Drinking ◽  
General Hospitals ◽  
Problem Drinker ◽  
Drinking Problems

Perceptions of problem-drinker patients’ family members about their own hazardous-drinking behaviours in Chinese general hospitals

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. s880-s881
Author(s):  
Y.F. Tsai ◽  
C.C. Lin ◽  
W.L. Yeh ◽  
J.T. Kao ◽  
C.Y. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Alcohol Drinking ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Hazardous Drinking ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Personal Taste ◽  
Problem Drinker ◽  
Drinking Problems ◽  
Excessive Alcohol

BackgroundExcessive alcohol use has been associated with health, social and legal problems. Studies of alcohol-drinking problems have mainly focused on patients with alcohol-drinking problems and few studies have focused on their family members. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of family members of problem-drinker patients about their own hazardous or harmful alcohol-drinking behaviours.MethodsIn this qualitative descriptive study, participants were recruited from three hospitals randomly selected from northern and central Taiwan (2:1). Hazardous-drinker patients and their family members were screened using the Chinese version AUDIT. AUDIT scores > 8 indicated harmful or hazardous drinkers. Data were collected in individual, audiotaped, in-depth interviews using an interview guide. Verbatim interview transcripts were analysed using ATLAS.ti, version WIN 7.0.ResultsThe sample of 35 family members with hazardous or harmful drinking behaviours perceived that their own alcohol-drinking behaviours were related to six major patterns: family habits, leisure activities with friends, work pressures, personal taste, a way to forget one's problems and to express happiness.ConclusionsWe recommend that programs to prevent harmful or hazardous drinking should emphasize understanding standard amounts of alcohol in alcoholic beverages, recommended amounts of alcohol consumption for males and females, knowledge about the long-term effects of excessive alcohol consumption; offer strategies to resist social pressure to drink; and build positive strategies for coping with stress.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

The Family, Research, and Prime-Time Television in Alcohol Education

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. De Foe ◽  
Warren Breed
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Alcohol Education ◽  
Family Research ◽  
Drinking Problems ◽  
The Family

Television programs contain materials relevant to health practices generally, and to drinking problems in particular. Research has found that these materials are often inaccurate and misleading. A method called cooperative consultation has succeeded in transmitting these findings to writers and producers in the industry. The response from the industry has been encouraging. The method is illustrated by using two programs and their contrasting depiction of how family members responded to an alcoholic husband and father.

Effectiveness of a brief intervention for managing hazardous drinking problems of inpatients in Taiwan

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (9) ◽  
pp. 2038-2046 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei-Chu Tsai ◽  
Yun-Fang Tsai ◽  
Fang-Ming Hwang ◽  
Chia-Yih Liu
Keyword(s):  
Brief Intervention ◽  
Hazardous Drinking ◽  
Drinking Problems

Bereaved Family Members’ Perceptions of the Distressing Symptoms of Terminal Patients With Cancer

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 972-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiaki Okamoto ◽  
Tatsuya Morita ◽  
Satoru Tsuneto ◽  
Maho Aoyama ◽  
Yoshiyuki Kizawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
General Hospitals ◽  
Distressing Symptom ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Few Data ◽  
Bereaved Family

Background: Few data are available on bereaved family members’ perspective on the frequency of symptoms and degree of distress among terminal patients with cancer. Methods: We sent a questionnaire to 1472 bereaved family members of terminal patients with cancer in 20 general hospitals. The questionnaire asked them (1) to indicate which symptoms the patients had, (2) to rate on a 4-point scale the extent to which the symptom was distressing, as follows: 1 = not distressing, 2 = slightly distressing, 3 = quite distressing, and 4 = very distressing at the point of 2 weeks before the patient had died. Results: We analyzed 805 questionnaires for this study. Anorexia was the commonest symptom among terminal patients with cancer experienced by bereaved family members, followed by somnolence, weight loss, fatigue, and pain. Anorexia was the most distressing symptom among terminal patients with cancer experienced by bereaved family members, followed by weight loss, pain, edema, and dyspnea. Conclusions: Anorexia and weight loss were frequent symptoms and bereaved family members felt very distressing. Furthermore, there are not means of effective treatment now. Thus, we think that further study in this field is necessary.

His mother became medicine: drinking problems, ethical transformation and maternal care in central Uganda

Africa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
China Scherz ◽  
George Mpanga
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Inpatient Rehabilitation ◽  
Physical Force ◽  
Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Drinking Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
Consumption Rates ◽  
Excessive Alcohol ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Per Capita Consumption

AbstractExcessive alcohol consumption often appears as an issue of great concern for the friends and family members of drinkers in Uganda, where per capita consumption rates among drinkers are among the highest in the world. In many cases, these families seek care for their loved ones in small shops run by herbalists, in the shrines of spirit mediums, in the pews of churches, or in one of several newly established inpatient rehabilitation centres. Yet, acts of intervention come not only from living family members or friends, but also from an array of spiritual beings who may arrive uninvited and outside intentional therapeutic contexts. In this article, we consider a case in which a mother's spirit intervenes in the life of her son, first by possessing his body and then by continuing to dwell there in ways that make it impossible for him to drink. This case highlights the importance of forces experienced as non-self in life-transforming processes, and demands that we give attention to a moment in a person's life when the work of care is achieved through an act of physical force.

Perceptions of Another Person's Heavy Drinking as a Function of One's Relationship to the Drinker: A Pilot Study

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 426-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg E. Dear ◽  
Nicole S. Bowron ◽  
Simon Burke ◽  
Louise C. Furey ◽  
Nicholas J. Griffiths ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Problem Drinker

Of 301 participants in a telephone survey, 201 could identify a problem drinker within their social networks. In 67 cases the drinker was a partner, in 45 another family member, in 61 a friend, and in 28 a work colleague. Another person's heavy drinking was reported as most disrupting to one's life when that person was a partner or other family member or if one was living in the same residence as the drinker. The exception to this was that reported disruption to respondents' work life was greatest when the drinker was a work colleague. While there appear to be problems for friends and work colleagues, partners and other family members appear to report the most disruption so providing services to family members seems appropriate.

Effective Clinical Interviewing

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline T. Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
Clinical Interviewing ◽  
Client Management

Speech, language, and hearing professionals rely on many individuals to provide information about a client. Management programs, in part, are devised, modified, and evaluated according to responses obtained from the client, family members, educators, and other professional and lay persons who have contact with the client. The speech-language pathologist has the responsibility of obtaining pertinent, complete, unbiased information about clients. This article provides an overview of the essential elements of an interview.

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