Problem Solving for Better Health

Project done by
K.J.Jeevitha
G.Divya
J.Arun Kumar
R.M.Sri Ramamoorthy
 RESEARCH QUESTION

WILL A HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMME ON HAZARDS OF

ALCOHOLISM FOR 100 PEOPLE IN SOWRIPALAYAM INCREASE
THEIR AWARENESS AT LEAST BY 50%

OBJECTIVE
1.To assess the knowledge on alcoholic hazards among 100 people in
sowripalayam
2.To give a health education on hazards of alcoholism.
3.To reassess the increase in knowledge by a post test.
 The term alcoholism can be applied to habitual alcohol
consumption that is deemed excessive in amount according to
some arbitrary criteum. It may also refer to damage whether
mental, physical, or social resulting from such excessive
consumption. In more specialized sense alcoholism may imply a
specific disease entity that is supposed to require medical
treatment.

PROBLEM DRINKER
The term problem drinker has been proposed to refer to people whose
repeated heavy drinking causes alcohol related disability. A problem
drinker may or may not be dependent in alcohol.
 CONT……………
• Alcohol related disabilities are
1. Physical damage - brain & liver
- Vitamin B-complex deficiency

2. Alimentary disorders - peptic ulcer

- Esophageal varices
- Carcinoma
- Acute & chronic pancreatitis
- Cirrhosis & hepatoma
3. Nervous system - peripheral neuropathy
- Epilepsy
. - Cerebellar degeneration
4. The mortality rate has increased due to accidents (drunken driving) when compared to
non drinkers.
Cause of damage to the fetus - fetal alcohol syndrome.
5. Psychiatric disorder - alcoholic idiosynsyncratic intoxication
- Memory blackouts

6. Withdrawal syndrome - delirium tremors

7. Suicidal behaviour
8. Impaired psychosocial function
9. Social damage.
Alcoholism is a cause of many road accidents .
It has a large economic impact on lower socio economic class
JUSTIFICATION
Alcoholism is more or less a universal problem. It is a sound and medical
problem. Alcohol consumption has increased in quantity and frequency over
the past 40 years. It is an associated with serious illness like liver damage,
cardiomyopathy, toxic psychosis and cancer of mouth, esophagus, Larynx,
in addition to various social problem accompany it.

It has many toxic effects as mentioned earlier.

Heavy drinker are men in their late teens or early twenties.

The risk of problem drinking is increasing in the lower socio economic group

Thus we came to conclusion to give health education to 100 people of age

20 to 30 in sowripalayam and assess their knowledge through post test.
MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY

STUDY POPULATION: 100 males.

SAMPLE SIZE: 100

STUDY AREA: sowripalayam near PSG hospitals, Peelamedu,

Coimbatore.

SAMPLING: purposive sampling. We included the first 100 eligible

and willing participants. Once we reached the required sample size
of 100, we stopped recruiting.

INCLUSION CRITERIA: We selected males between the age group

20-40 yrs in sowripalayam, Coimbatore.
CONT…

EXCLUSION CRITERIA: We excluded

People who were not the permanent residents of sowripalayam.

People who were not between the age group of 20-40 yrs.

INTERVENTION: through health education sessions using charts,

posters, pamphlets.

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: We used Epi info and SPSS v10

statistical packages. paired ‘t’ tests and chi square tests were used
to find out the statistical significance of the differences in pre test
and post test scores.

ETHICAL CONSIDERATION: informed consent obtained.

 TIME LINE CHART

analysis
post test
health education
pre test
preliminary preparation
questionnaire
community introduction
review of literature
study question

0 5 10 15 20
weeks
 ACTION ON CNS PEOPLES AFFECTED

100% 4
15
90%
100% 10 80%
28

80% 70%
45
60% HEG
no action 24
60%
LEG
63 50%
94 depr 40%
age&sex
community

40%
stim 30%

44
20% 40
20%
27 10%

0% 6 0%
1 2

IS IT A DISEASE? Staggering

100% 1 100%
7 6 6
13
90% 90%

80% 80%

70% 44
70%

60% 60% leg

don'
tknow 62
CNS
50% no 50%
93 92 acting
yes
40% 40% eye

30% 30%
49
20% 20%
20
10% 10%
5 2
0% 0%
1 2 1 2
 ORGAN AFFECTED IF ALCOHOLIC IN YOUR HOME?

100% 3 100%
12
90% 22 17
90%

80% 80%

70%
70%
43
60% lung
60% fate
heart 54 62
50% 95 rehablitate
liver 50%
conceal
40% brain
40% harshword
30%
46 30%
20% 2
12
20%
10%
9 24
10% 17
0% 2
1 2 0%
1 2

DOES ALCOHOL INCREASE SEXUAL ACTIVITY DRINKING LEADS TO

100%
8
100% 90% 18 2

90%
80% 5
80% 42 44 70%
70%
60% don’t know 60% no skin problem
no brain damage
50% don't 50%
58 84 blurring

40% 36 agree 40% no ulcer

30% 46
30%

20% 20%
10% 22
10 10% 19
0% 6
0%
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A project done by Dr. Somasundram and Dr. Ponnudurai two psychiatrist of MMC
Chennai on the prevalence of alcohol abuse among medical students. The
subjective responses thus obtained from 274 students revealed that 9.52% boys
and 1.89% girls abused alcohol once a month. 4.42% students turned out to be
weekly abusers.

Our projects showed only 36 out of hundred were having the habit of consuming
alcohol.

A study was carried out by Dr. Mathruboothan & Dr. Ramachandran two
psychiatrist of Chennai to assess the drinking behaviour in rural population. It was
found that 81.6% of them having serious drinking behaviour, 18.4% of them had
hazardous drinking behaviour out of 386 students

Our project showed that nobody had severe drinking habit; all were only weekly or
monthly drinkers.

We have done a study to increase awareness in the people about the hazards of
alcoholism and should a increase in knowledge of 50.01% of pretest score
Improve communication among public

Good health education is necessary to aim at better results.

We should recommended the government to ban the alcoholic

shops & bars.
Advertisement of the various brands of alcohol (in indirect
ways) should be prohibited
The knowledge about the hazards of alcoholism should be
taught to the community from the schooling itself.
Plan and finish the project without break as people may drop
out.
We did not do the project among whole population in that area. It is
only among those 100 we selected. So we cannot claim what is being
reported as the true ‘prevalence’ of alcoholism in the region.

Due to the limited scope of our project, we could not produce any
noticeable behavioural modification – i.e. discontinuation of the use of
alcohol. The improvements effected were in the knowledge and
attitudes.

Break of 3 months in doing the project so we missed few people

whom we selected and had to once again search for the people.

Many people refused to accept that they were alcoholic though they
drink; this did not give us the true data on number of people who have
the habit of drinking.
After our health education we noticed a significant increase in
awareness.

We were able to achieve 50.01% of pretest score increase in

awareness among the public this made us realize that
continued health education was essential to bring about
more awareness. Awareness on hazards of alcoholism
through health education can help to reduce social problems
& economic burdens on the society as well as safeguard the
health of people.