Open AccessAssess the Correlation between the Level of Co-dependency and Quality of Marital Life among Wives of Clients with Alcohol Dependence in Selected De-Addiction Centre, Bengaluru
Author(s) -
A Nandhini.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of health sciences and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2249-9571
DOI - 10.52403/ijhsr.20210626
Subject(s) - marital status , correlation , medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , scale (ratio) , nonprobability sampling , dependency (uml) , addiction , alcohol dependence , demography , psychology , clinical psychology , alcohol , psychiatry , environmental health , population , mathematics , nursing , physics , geometry , systems engineering , quantum mechanics , sociology , engineering , biochemistry , chemistry
Aim: Present study attempts to assess the correlation between co-dependency and quality of marital life among wives of alcohol dependence clients.Materials and Methods: Descriptivecorrelational design with a non-probability purposive sampling method was used. The sample of this study comprised of 50 wives of clients with alcohol dependence admitted to the Deaddiction center. Data was collected using theSocio-demographic proforma, co-dependency scale, and marital quality scale to assess the correlation between the level of co-dependency and quality of marital life.Results: In this study, the result shows that the sample's co-dependency scale indicates that 8% of respondents were moderately co-dependent and 92% were highly co-dependent, and none of them were completely independent. The quality of marital life scale shows that 78% were moderately affected, 20% have severely affected, and the remaining 2% were mildly affected by marital quality. The computed value of Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient was + 0.627. So this shows there exists a positive correlation between co-dependency and the Quality of Marital life. Analysis of socio-demographic variables with co-dependency level shows no significance, and quality of marital life showed a significant association between husbands' educations, duration of husband’s alcoholism, duration of stay in the de-addiction center, number of children. Thus the study result revealed a positive correlation between the level of Co-dependency and quality of marital life.Conclusion: The study's findings revealed a positive correlation between the level of co-dependency and quality of marital life among wives of clients with alcohol dependence.Key words: Co-dependency, Quality of marital life, Alcohol dependence.