Predicting Hazardous Alcohol Drinking Behaviors in Family Members of Hazardous Alcohol-Drinker Patients

Ching-Yen Chen, Chen-Chun Lin, Jung-Ta Kao, Wen-Ling Yeh, Chiao-Yun Lin and Yun-Fang Tsai
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Ching-Yen Chen: Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung City 204, Taiwan
Chen-Chun Lin: College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan
Jung-Ta Kao: School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung City 404, Taiwan
Wen-Ling Yeh: College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan
Chiao-Yun Lin: Department of Nursing, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan
Yun-Fang Tsai: Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Keelung City 204, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: Family members of hazardous or harmful alcohol drinkers suffer many consequences of their relative’s alcohol-drinking behaviors and risk developing their own hazardous alcohol drinking behaviors. Studies of alcohol-related healthcare problems have mainly focused on patients, with few studies on their family members. This cross-sectional study explored factors predicting hazardous alcohol drinking behaviors in family members of hazardous alcohol-drinker patients. Participants were recruited from four randomly chosen hospitals in Taiwan. Data were collected using self-report questionnaires on family members’ alcohol use, perceived stress, coping mechanisms, social support, health, quality of life, protective factors against hazardous alcohol drinking, facilitative factors for hazardous alcohol drinking, and demographics. The 318 family members who participated in this study were divided by their Chinese-version Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test scores into two groups: hazardous alcohol drinkers (score ≥ 8) and non-hazardous alcohol drinkers (score < 8). Significant factors predicting hazardous alcohol drinking behaviors were found by logistic regression to be the frequency of using general coping mechanisms (OR = 1.29, p < 0.01), the frequency of using strategies to cope with patients’ drinking-related behaviors (OR = 0.89, p < 0.01), factors protecting against hazardous alcohol drinking (OR = 0.76, p < 0.01) and factors facilitating hazardous alcohol drinking (OR = 1.52, p < 0.01). Interventions should be designed for family members of hazardous alcohol drinkers to address these four significant predictors.

Keywords: alcohol; hazardous drinking behaviors; family member; protective factor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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