Open AccessAlcohol, harmful use and dependence: Assessment using the WHO Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test tool in a South Indian fishermen community
Author(s) -
Anand Kumar,
Gomathi Ramaswamy,
Marie Gilbert Majella,
Balaji Bharadwaj,
Palanivel Chinnakali,
Gautam Roy
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_82_15
Subject(s) - alcohol use disorders identification test , alcohol , alcohol dependence , medicine , alcohol use disorder , audit , environmental health , test (biology) , confidence interval , injury prevention , poison control , biology , business , paleontology , biochemistry , accounting
Fishermen have a high burden of alcohol-related morbidity. The Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) is used to classify individual to have harmful use of alcohol and probable alcohol dependence. Hence, this study was conducted among fishermen in a selected fishermen community in Puducherry, South India, to (a) assess the proportion of harmful alcohol use and probable dependence to alcohol among alcohol users using AUDIT tool and (b) find the sociodemographic factors associated with harmful alcohol use and probable dependence among alcohol users.