Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International

Background: Misuse of alcohol is the most leading bewildering problem, that cast off the happiness of many families with all their possessions, which further can lead to a severe mental problem for themselves as well as their wife and their innocent children who even doesn’t face the real world. It is a fact that the wife and children, who had suffered while their fathers gave up their everything.

Objective: 1) To assess the common psychosocial problems among women with alcoholic spouses. 2) To associate common psychosocial problems score among women of the alcoholic spouse with their demographic variables.

Methodology: It is a quantitative research approach study, and it will be conducted among 100 women with an alcoholic spouse in both outpatient and inpatient psychiatric departments at Acharya Vinoba Bhava Rural Hospital, Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha. A structured knowledge questionnaire will be used to collect the data.

Expected Outcome: It is expected that there will increase mental health problems for the spouses of alcoholic patients regarding depression, anxiety, their physical and mental well-being, and their financial conditions.

Conclusions: Alcohol-related problems are not a recent problem faced by their spouse; it is a problem that remains for a long-time. This study thus will provide recent data regarding the problem faced by the spouse of an alcoholic.