Loan Thi Mai Nguyen. Exploring alcohol withdrawal syndrome and predicting alcohol consumption change in patients admitted to a genenral hospitals in Vietnam. Doctoral Degree(Social and Administrative Pharmacy). Chulalongkorn University. Office of Academic Resources. : Chulalongkorn University, 2019.
Exploring alcohol withdrawal syndrome and predicting alcohol consumption change in patients admitted to a genenral hospitals in Vietnam
Abstract:
Risky alcohol drinking is common in hospitalized patients. Early detecting risky alcohol drinkers in hospital is important to provide appropriate management of Alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS). This first aim of this study was to identify the extent to which patients admitted to a general hospital in Vietnam meet the criteria for risky alcohol drinker (RAD), alcohol use disorder (AUD), and alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS). The second aim was to identify predictors of intension to change and changing alcohol consumption using the Integrated Behavior Model as a conceptual framework. Design: A prospective survey was conducted in Kien An - a general hospital in the north of Vietnam during March-June 2018. To achieve the first objective, 1340 patients admitted to a general hospital was screened for risky alcohol drinkers, AUD and AWS. There were 314 from 2,168 patients admitted to the hospital were identified as risky alcohol drinkers for collecting data of the second objective. Patients who drank greater than the set limit for safe were classified as RADs. RADs who had the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) score of 8 or more were identified as AUDs. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders version 5 was used as a criteria to diagnose AWS. The AWS scale was used to quantitate AWS severity level. Upon admission, there were 250 male and 1 female risky alcohol drinkers were interviewed using a designed questionnaire on their experiential and instrumental attitude toward changing alcohol consumption, descriptive and injunctive norm, perceived behavior control, alcohol dependent severity, intention to change alcohol consumption and alcohol consumption. A total of 176 and 115 RADs were follow-up for alcohol consumption using the first 3 question of AUDIT at 1 and 3 months after hospital discharge, respectively.