Open AccessAlcohol use and alcohol use disorder among male outpatients in a primary care setting in rural Puducherry
Author(s) -
Sujiv Akkilagunta,
Palanivel Chinnakali,
Karthik Laksham Balajee,
Subitha Lakshminarayanan,
Senthil Kumar,
Gautam Roy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.181711
Subject(s) - alcohol use disorders identification test , alcohol use disorder , medicine , context (archaeology) , alcohol , population , audit , cross sectional study , primary care , environmental health , health care , family medicine , psychiatry , poison control , injury prevention , biochemistry , chemistry , management , pathology , economics , economic growth , paleontology , biology
Alcohol use contributes to considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. Screening for alcohol use and alcohol use disorder (AUD) at the primary care level can help in reducing this burden. While several community studies have been conducted to estimate the AUD, there apparently are no studies on opportunistic screening in a primary care setting in India.