Alcoholic beverages are known entertained
source since from Vedic period; which are commonly
used for worship purposes, medicinal preparations, and
widely consumed as a mind relaxants. Alcohol contents is
a central nervous system depressant that reduces
anxiety, fear inhibition and divert the feelings of guilt.
Liqueur contents lowers mind alertness and impairs the
perception, judgment, and muscle coordination. In high
doses of alcohol consumption can cause addiction, loss of
consciousness and even death. in India, the survey
reports reveals the problems associated with intake of
alcohol are spousal assaults in family 62%, day today
spousal abuse 50%, road traffic accidental fatalities
45%, child abuse reports 38%, registered rape
complaints 32%, murder case reports 49%, suicidal
cases 20% in the percentages listed. The major FIR
reports are much focused on the spousal abuse and
assaults.
In this study focused the effectiveness of
complimentary therapies refers to the significant
reduction in depressive symptoms scores among
alcoholic dependents after the administration of CBT Vs
Light therapy as measured by the decreased post test
score on the Modified Beck’s Depression scale. The pilot
study showed that combination of psychosocial
treatments may help accelerate the treatment gains for
Alcoholic patients with depression. Hence, the Cognitive
behavior therapy Vs light therapy can be used as a
complementary therapies for Alcoholic patients with
depression.
Design
Quasi experimental design, where 2 experimental
group pre-test post-test design.
Settings
The pilot study was conducted at the Psychiatric
department, Government Mohan Kumaramangalam
Medical College and hospital, Salem. The Simple
Random sampling technique was used to select the
samples from the alcoholic patients admitted with the
depressive symptoms in psychiatric unit for alcoholic
addiction treatment. Only Male Patients those fulfilling
the inclusion criteria and admitted as inpatient in
Psychiatric department, GMKMCH. The pre and Post-
test was assessed based on modified Beck’s depression II
scale over time interval of 30 days.
Result
The study showed the result as reducing the level of
depressive symptoms among 10 alcoholic clients in two
experimental group after administration of Cognitive
behavior therapy (CBT) Vs Light therapy (LT) 60% are
having mild level depression score, 40% of them having
borderline clinical depression score, none of them are
having moderate level of depression score, no severe
depression score and none of them are having extreme
depression score with mean and standard deviation as
13.4 ± 18.8. While comparing to the table value, it
showed that the calculated ‘t’ value was greater than the
table value at 0.001 level of significance. It shows CBT
Vs LT is effective in reduction of depression among
alcoholic patients.
Conclusions
The pilot study findings suggest that differences
between CBT and LT following 6 weeks of treatment are
quite small and that powering studies to detect thesedifferences would not represent cost-effective use of
resources to the alcoholic depressive patients.
Keywords : Alcoholic Depression, Psychological Interventions, CBT, Light Therapy and Depression Scale.