Quality of life of alcohol addicted people and its changeability during treatment

Benkovič, A. – Garaj, V.

The quality of life is a personal, emotional and cognitive psycho-reflection of a longer-term status of an individual residing in comparison of reality with an ideal mainly according to accepted value s in the context of community, civilization and culture. Subjective comfort is like a subjectively perceived status resulting from an individual experience of a person during his/her everyday life where the final status is a result of summing up positive and negative episodes. The meaning of life is an “all maker”; we consider the process of seeking it or enriching it not only to be a component but the universal principle of life’s quality. The problem of alcohol abuse and alcohol dependency can be characterized as a multidisciplinary one. It is combination of social, psychological, biological and last but not least spiritual influences. It depends from circumstances which from these influences will be decisive at the given moment. After treatment there has been a statistically significant change in the overall quality of life in the group of alcoholics. After going trough the treatment there has been a statistically significant decrease of nervousness in the group of alcoholics.

Key words: Quality of life – alcohol dependence – treatment