Lived Experience of Thai Women with Alcohol Addiction

Hanpatchaiyakul, RN Kulnaree; Eriksson, Henrik; Kijsomporn, Jureerat; Östlund, Gunnel

doi:10.1016/j.anr.2017.12.001

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“…In the cases of alcohol use disorders, some studies indicated that women face greater obstacles than males in seeking treatment for alcoholism. 21 , 22 In Thailand, it may be influenced by there is no specific intervention for women with alcoholism. 22 The healthcare service was provided in general services more than gender-specific services.…”

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Trends and Gender Differences in Mental Disorders in Hospitalized Patients in Thailand

Suanrueang

Peltzer

Suen

et al. 2022

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Previous studies have shown that gender differences play a substantial role in the influence of mental disorders. This study was designed to investigate gender differences in mental disorders by presenting odd ratio (OR) trends and cumulative effects over a period of 13 years in Thailand. This observational study used hospital data from the Ministry of Public Health on selected patients admitted to inpatient departments in public hospitals with mental disorders, according to ICD-10 cause groups from 2007 to 2019, counting from more than 1,90,000 cases in 2007 to more than 4,00,000 cases in 2019. Data were collected from the Thailand Ministry of Public Health website. The results indicate that compared to women, men were positively related to five mental disorders revealed by the OR and the ratio per 100,000 population (mean and SD): psychoactive alcohol use (OR = 7.31-9.07, 271.19 (59.26)), substance abuse (OR = 5.06-7.82, 59.25 (33.71)), schizophrenia (OR = 1.64-1.93, 108.32 (19.62)), mental retardation (OR = 1.15-1.58, 10.64 (1.88)), and other mental and behavioral disorders (OR = 1.10-1.55, 70.67 (22.75)). Three mental disorders in men were found to be negatively related: neurotic and related disorders (OR=.34-.46, 27.98 (3.26)), mood (affective) disorders (OR = .44-.56, 31.91 (9.59)), and dementia (OR = .78-10.82, 13.75 (2.73)). Gender can become a key biological element that contributes to the dissimilarity of mental illness. Preventive care for men and women should, therefore, be prioritized for health conditions separately. More specifically, screening and detection, and providing appropriate intervention.

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Trends and Gender Differences in Mental Disorders in Hospitalized Patients in Thailand

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Suen

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“…Nowhere is this complexity more apparent than in work specific to women. Woman, inclusive of cisgender, transgender and non-binary women, experience many concurrent challenges associated with substance abuse/addiction that can include childhood sexual abuse and other early life adversities, untreated mental health difficulties, parenting challenges, interpersonal violence and poverty (Andrews et al, 2019 ; Brown, 2008 ; Covington, 2008 ; Hanpatchaiyakul et al, 2017 ; Najavits, 2002 ; Poole & Greaves, 2012 ). One Canadian study of women who abused alcohol found that 90% of participants reported experiencing traumatic events, primarily childhood sexual abuse and using alcohol to self-medicate the painful feelings connected to these incidents (Brown, 2008 ).…”

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Dismantling Addiction Services: Neoliberal, Biomedical and Degendered Constraints on Social Work Practice

Ross

Brown

Johnstone

2022

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Background This research was conducted in response to concerns reported by social work practitioners to a Canadian College of Social Work which indicated that their practice was constrained by ideological and system limitations in publicly funded mental health and addiction systems. Method The dislocation theory of addiction which posits globalization and neoliberalism is linked to addiction rates worldwide, serves as an analytical frame to examine findings from fifty interviews, three focus groups and an online survey with one hundred and fifteen respondents. Results Themes specific to social work practice in addiction services referred to neoliberalism, stigma, biomedicalization, trauma and addiction, elimination of women services, shrinking services and privatization. Conclusion Social workers expressed a dissonance between their training rooted in relational approaches and biopsychosocial models of practice and system expectations. Our findings indicate concern about the erosion of core social work values within addiction services, the reduction of state funded programming and need for further research.

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“…Stressful life events and ineffective coping strategies were found to play a considerable role in patients' relapsing (20). Furthermore, alcohol addicts with familial problems, such as a failed marriage or conflicts with their children, were found to experience emotional guilt and shame which led to a withdrawal from social relations (21).…”

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Factors Affecting Adherence to Treatment of Male Inpatients with Alcohol Addiction: an Qualitative Study

Yılmaz

Ata

2021

Clinical and Experimental Health Sciences

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Objective: This paper explores those factors affecting adherence to treatment among inpatients with alcohol addiction in Turkey. Methods:This qualitative and descriptive study was carried out in 2018. The sample consisted of 16 patients with alcohol addiction in a psychiatric clinic. The data were analyzed using content analysis.Results: Three main themes emerged from these interviews: (1) strengthening of personality; (2) structuring of treatment environment; and(3) completion of social life preparations. Strengthening of personality theme was composed of low self-esteem, anger and ineffective coping, inadequate communication skills, and loneliness sub-themes. Structuring of treatment environment theme consisted of lack of knowledge and insight, a non-therapeutic environment, and lack of treatment motivation sub-themes. Finally, completion of social life preparations theme was composed of lack of leisure activity, fighting the stigma of alcoholism, failure to initiate change and insufficient social support sub-themes. Conclusion:This study suggests that psychiatric nurses should improve patients' self-esteem, coping and communication skills, and increase patients' knowledge and insight about their disorder and medication, treatment motivation, and social support resources.

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Lived Experience of Thai Women with Alcohol Addiction

Abstract: Thai women who experience alcohol addiction are treated with gender-related double standards when trying to undo gender traditional roles. Their marginalization from family and society deepens making them even more vulnerable to the positive side effects of alcohol drinking.

Cited by 14 publications

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Trends and Gender Differences in Mental Disorders in Hospitalized Patients in Thailand

Trends and Gender Differences in Mental Disorders in Hospitalized Patients in Thailand

Dismantling Addiction Services: Neoliberal, Biomedical and Degendered Constraints on Social Work Practice

Factors Affecting Adherence to Treatment of Male Inpatients with Alcohol Addiction: an Qualitative Study

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