The Prevalence and Correlates of Depression Awareness in Patients with Alcohol use Disorder

Abstract

Introduction

Alcoholic use disorder is a big problem in every country. It is the leading factor causing high disability-adjusted life year (DALYs). The National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiology Cathchment Area found that 37% of people with alcoholic use disorder had comorbid along with psychiatric disorder especially depression. In order to successfully treat patients with alcoholic use disorder, we have to treat their comorbidity along as well.

Aim

To examine the prevalence and correlation of depression awareness in patients with alcoholic use disorder.

Methods

Inpatients and outpatients who were diagnosed with alcoholic use disorder and alcohol dependence were invited to participate in this research. Subjects who had any history of depressive disorder treatment before were excluded. The awareness of depression was determined by the Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised, IPQ-R. Depressive disorder was determined by the Thai version of the nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9).

Results

Ninety subjects with alcoholic use disorder agreed to join this research. Twenty-nine of the 90 (32.2%) had depression due to the PHQ-9 scale. Twenty-three were aware that they had depression and that was related to alcohol use. Using the logistic regression analysis, there were no significant factors related to this awareness.

Conclusion

There is high prevalence of depression in patients with alcoholic use disorder and most of them have awareness did not receive treatment for depression.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.