Journal of Preventive Medicine and Holistic Health 2021;7(2):109–113 Content available at: https://www.ipinnovative.com/open-access-journals Journal of Preventive Medicine and Holistic Health Journal homepage: https://www.jpmhh.org/ Original Research Article The impact of structured awareness programme on effects of alcoholism among the adolescence of Mizoram Gitumoni Konwar 1, *, Laltanpuii Fanai 2 1 Faculty of Nursing, Assam Down Town University, Guwahati, Assam, India 2 Faculty of Nursing, School of Nursing, Thingdawl, Mizoram, India ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received 25-05-2021 Accepted 03-09-2021 Available online 29-11-2021 Keywords: Knowledge Students of higher secondary schools Structured awareness programme Effects of alcoholism ABSTRACT Alcoholism is now becoming a major problem of all the nations. Approximately 2.5 million die each year from the harmful use of alcohol accounting for about 4 % of all deaths in the world. Because of these problems created by alcoholism, the study was conducted with the aim to create awareness on effects of alcoholism among adolescence students of higher secondary students of Mizoram as a preventive program. An evaluative research approach was adopted with one group pre-test and post-test design. The sample comprised of 100 students selected by using lottery method from three higher secondary schools in Aizawl, Mizoram. The tool was developed and reliability of the tool was established by Pearson’s covariance co- efficient i.e. 0.87. The teaching programme was found to be effective in increasing the knowledge of students as evidenced by‘t’ (99) = 27.13, p < 0.05. The study also reports that there was significant association between pre-test knowledge score with mother’s education as evident from p = 0.020 at 0.05 level of significance, but no significant association between pre-test knowledge score and other selected demographic variables were found. Conclusion: The planned awareness programme was an effective method to increase the knowledge of the students. Mother’s education played an important role in educating their children towards effects of alcoholism. The study can be implicated in practical nursing field for health promotion and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol related disorders. This is an Open Access (OA) journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. For reprints contact: reprint@ipinnovative.com 1. Introduction Alcoholism (also known as alcohol dependence syndrome) is defined as “a cluster of behavioural, cognitive, and physiological phenomena that develop after repeated alcohol use and that typically include a strong desire to consume, difficulties in controlling its use, persisting in its use despite harmful consequences, a higher priority given to alcohol use than to other activities and obligations, increased tolerance, and sometimes a physical withdrawal state” (ICD-10). 1 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: gitumonikonwar@gmail.com (G. Konwar). Alcoholism is now becoming a major problem of all the nations because it has given rise to the mortality rate. Approximately 2.5 million die each year from the harmful use of alcohol accounting for about 4% of all deaths in the world. More than half of these deaths occur from NCDs (Non-communicable diseases) including cancers, cardiovascular disease and liver cirrhosis. 2,3 Alcohol consumption is the world’s third largest risk factor for disease and disability; in middle-income countries, it is the greatest risk. Alcohol is a causal factor in 60 types of diseases and injuries and a component cause in 200 others. Almost 4% of all deaths worldwide are attributed to alcohol, greater than deaths caused by HIV/AIDS, violence or https://doi.org/10.18231/j.jpmhh.2021.021 2454-6704/© 2021 Innovative Publication, All rights reserved. 109