A Descriptive Study to Assess the Emotional ProblemsAmong Alcoholic Clients in De-Addiction Ward, Institute of Mental Health, at Chennai

Background: Emotional problem is an inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationship with peers or others. Through education driven can control emotional problems of alcoholic clients and to promote well - being of the alcoholic clients. Methods: The sample was selected by simple randomized sampling technique (n=30). Level of emotional problem among the alcoholic clients was assessed by emotional contagion scale with the selected demographic variable. The levels of emotional problems were associated by chi- square test. Results: The result of descriptive study shows the level of emotional problems among alcoholic clients. The overall percentage is (10%) most susceptible emotional problems, (77%) moderate susceptible emotional problems, (10%) mild susceptible emotional problems, (3%) normal susceptible. Conclusion: The above finding reveals that the emotional contagion scale was effective to assess the emotional problems among the alcoholic clients.