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Alcoholic disease in the female population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

S. Vukadinovic ,
N. Zivlak - Radulović ,
A. Mitrovic  and
Z. Stojanovic
S. Vukadinovic
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Clinic Clinical Centre of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
N. Zivlak - Radulović
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Clinic Clinical Centre of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
A. Mitrovic
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Clinic Clinical Centre of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Z. Stojanovic
Affiliation:
School of Medicine, Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Abstract

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Specificity of alcoholism between men and women caused by the numerous cultural, historical and socio-economic factors. Female alcoholism has recently growing problem. It is believed that the number of women alcoholics is growing faster than the overall increase in the number of alcoholics.

Purpose

To show the presence of alcohol consumption in women and factors (age, sex, marital status, school ready, mid-life) that have an impact on the very spread of disease.

Method

Data were used from the medical records of patients treated at the Clinic for Psychiatry. As a source of data used are dedicated questionnaires designed for adults.

Results

From total of 185 patients hospitalized women occasionally drink 45% (81 patients), not drinking response was 31%(57), tried alcohol was 18.4% (34) and 5.6% of them (10) gave a response to daily consume alcoholic beverages.

The ratio of men and women who consume alcohol is 1:5.

Discussion

Many epidemiological studies of alcohol-induced problems, saying in principle that women drink less than men. Knowledge of alcoholism fifty years ago saying that the ratio of men to women alcoholics was 1:10, and twenty years ago 1:7, to the last ten years, epidemiological studies have shown that women are increasingly drinking and that the ratio is 1:3,5.

Conclusion

The biggest group treated alcoholic women which was occasionally consumed alcohol at the age of 30 to 45 years, about 31.57%, 39.32% of single women and highly educated women 48.92%.The largest percentage had elderly women 1.84%, low educated 1.2% and widow 1.12%.

Type
P03-522
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 1692
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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