International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health | January 2021 | Vol 8 | Issue 1 Page 243 International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health Maria BC et al. Int J Community Med Public Health. 2021 Jan;8(1):243-247 http://www.ijcmph.com pISSN 2394-6032 | eISSN 2394-6040 Original Research Article Demographic profile of alcohol use disorder patient who received care from a de-addiction centre in central Kerala Maria Babu C. 1 , Maria Joy P. 1 , Ronnie Thomas 2 , Varghese P. R. 1 , Praveenlal Kuttichira 3 * INTRODUCTION Alcohol consumption is the world’s third largest risk factor for disease and disability. 1 The harmful use of alcohol can also result in harm to other people, such as family members, friends, co-workers and strangers. Moreover, the harmful use of alcohol results in a significant health, social and economic burden on society at large. 2 Globally, 6.2% of all male deaths and 1.1% female deaths are attributable to alcohol. 3 Mortality resulting from alcohol consumption is higher than that caused by diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and diabetes. 4 A rise in alcohol use in South East Asian countries including India is reported. 5 Prevalence rate of alcohol use in India is 21.4% with male predominance and a trend for increase in female. 6 Large number of youth among users and peddlers warrant effective and early implementation of preventive, curative and ABSTRACT Background: The world’s third largest risk factor for disease and disability is alcohol consumption. This is associated with many serious socio-economic issues, including violence, child neglect and abuse, and absenteeism at the workplace. Methods: In this study the socio demographic details of the patients admitted from 1st January 2016 to 31st December 2016 were collected directly from the medical records of a de-addiction centre situated at Thrissur, Kerala. The data was entered to excel and statistical analysis was done by using SPSS 21. A total of 571 cases were included in the study. Results: This study shows that more than half of the patients (52.42%) seeking de-addiction comes under middle age group with the mean age of 42 years. Based on educational category of the patients of this study only 10.4% had graduation and above. The majority of the subjects had either high school certificate or below (84.4%). The educational status of patients was comparable with the pattern among general population. In the present study, 32.9% of the patients are skilled workers. In terms of blood group distribution of the patients, the most observed blood group was O+ (41.4%) followed by B+ (23.9%). Conclusions: Large number of clients seeks help from de-addiction centers. The majority belonged to middle age group and the educational status of patients was comparable with the pattern among general population. There is necessity for further investigation in the de-addiction centers in order to evaluate pattern and trends in misuse of alcohol or substances. Keywords: Alcohol Use Disorder, De-addiction, Substance Abuse 1 Jubilee Centre for Medical Research, Jubilee Mission Medical College & Research Institute, Thrissur, Kerala, India 2 Department of Community Medicine, Jubilee Mission Medical College & Research Institute, Thrissur, Kerala, India 3 Department of Psychiatry, Jubilee Mission Medical College & Research Institute, Thrissur, Kerala, India Received: 29 September 2020 Revised: 25 November 2020 Accepted: 03 December 2020 *Correspondence: Dr. Praveenlal Kuttichira, E-mail: prof.praveenlal@gmail.com Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Medip Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20205701