EFFECTIVENESS OF COPING STRATEGIES ON STRESS AND COPING AMONG THE CAREGIVERS OF ALCOHOL DEPENDENTS AT SELECTED DE-ADDICTION CENTRES, THANJAVUR

Abstract

Alcohol is hard to avoid now a days. It has become a part of modern life. Alcohol can be very destructive
for a lot of people, most especially the people who suffer and their family also suffers with the alcoholic
dependents. Care givers of alcohol dependents must be empowered by teaching how to handle stress
and cope up with the situation by the use of coping strategies. A quasi experimental study was done to
assess the effectiveness of coping strategies on stress and coping among the care givers of alcohol
dependents at selected de-addiction centers,Thanjavur. Non-equivalent control group pretest –post test
design was carried out among 80 caregivers. The samples were selected by using Non probability
purposive sampling technique and Rating Scales was used to collect the data. The statistical analysis
revealed that, the calculated ‘t’ test value for stress (‘t’=22.96) and coping (‘t’=26.60) had a significant
difference between the pre and post test levels of stress and coping among the caregivers of alcohol
dependents at 0.05 level of significance. The correlation between the post test scores of stress and
coping ‘r’ value (r= -0.7) for both groups. Hence the coping Strategies was significantly effective in
improving the coping and reduction of stress among the caregivers of alcohol dependents.