ASSOCIATION OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC DATA WITH PRE TEST AND POST TEST LEVEL OF STRESS AMONG ALCOHOLIC PATIENTS INSELECTED DE ADDICTION CENTRE IN KERALA

Abstract

Alcohol's Effects on Stress, the body's HPA frameworks strive to keep a sensitive physiological equilibrium, however when alcohol is added to the blend it puts the body at much more serious gamble for hurt. Alcohol makes higher measures of cortisol be delivered adjusting the cerebrum's science and resetting what the body considers "ordinary. "Alcohol moves the hormonal equilibrium and alters the manner in which the body sees stress and changes how it answers stress. Studies have discovered that cortisol associates with the mind's prize or delight frameworks, which can add to alcohol's supporting impacts constraining consumers to drink more noteworthy sums to accomplish a similar impact. Aim:. To evaluate the effectiveness of group therapy on stress among the alcoholics Settings and Design: A Quantitative approach was used for analyzing the effectiveness of group therapy. The study was conducted in Wisdom Hospital and Deaddiction Centre, Trivandrum on 100 chronic alcoholic patients who were admitted in deaddiction centre and having Stress. A non-probability convenience sampling technique was used in this study. The beck stress inventory was used to assess the stress. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used under SPSS to do analysis. Results: No significant Association found between level of Stress in experimental group of pre - test. Significant Association found in age between level of Stress in experimental group of posttest and Selected Demographic data.