Insight into Alcohol-Related Problems and Its Associations with Severity of Alcohol Consumption, Mental Health Status, Race, and Level of Acculturation in Southern Taiwanese Indigenous People with Alcoholism

Abstract

These findings suggest that most alcoholic indigenes in southern Taiwan have poor insight into their own alcohol-related problems. Cultural specific interventions targeting and improving the indigenes' insight into alcohol-related problems are needed.

Instruments for the Evaluation of Alcohol Use in Indigenous Communities – A Systematic Review

“…Composed of ten questions that examine the amount and frequency of alcohol consumption, as well as its behaviors and consequences, its goal is to identify alcohol use disorders. This instrument was used by four studies (Currie et al, 2011;Seale et al, 2002;Seale et al, 2010;Yen et al, 2008). Seale et al (2002) added, together with the AUDIT, a question to identify the fi rst contact with the alcoholic beverage and the type of drink consumed by the indigenous.…”

“…It has questions about quantity, frequency of alcohol use, including assessment of the behavior of binge drinking, which refers to drinking a lot in a short period of time. Yen et al (2008) worked with the Hanil Alcohol Insight Scale (HAIS) instrument, which contains twenty items that measure the acceptance or denial of alcoholism subjects, composed of sentences about the positive view and negative view about their behavior towards alcohol. A Self Reporting Scale is an instrument that classifi es participants as abstainers, moderate drinkers and heavy drinkers, according to their frequency and quantity of ingested drinks, used by Weisner et al (1984).…”

Care for the seafarers: A review of mental health in Austronesia

“…Higher rates of alcoholism among Taiwanese aborigines (Yen et al ., ) and acculturation as a risk factor for alcoholism among adolescent Taiwanese aborigines (Yeh, ).…”

Harmful Alcohol Use Among Aboriginal People in Southern Taiwan

“…Seventy-three percent of the aboriginal people of southern Taiwan who drank excessively were found to have poor insight into their alcoholrelated problems (Yen et al, 2008a). Seventy-three percent of the aboriginal people of southern Taiwan who drank excessively were found to have poor insight into their alcoholrelated problems (Yen et al, 2008a).…”