DOI: https://doi.org/10.36347/sjams.2025.v13i02.024

Pages: 437-440

Background of the study: With the impact of Globalization, urbanization, industrialization, media influence and changing life styles, alcohol has entered into the lives of Indians in a big and unrestricted manner. 23.8% of men reported alcohol consumption in the past year. Among drinkers, 33.2% exhibited hazardous drinking, 3.3% harmful drinking, and 5.5% dependent drinking. An overall prevalence of current alcohol use at 9.5%, with significantly higher rates among males (18.3%) compared to females (0.4%). The percentage of the population drinking alcohol aged less than 21 years has increased from 2% to more than 14% in the past 15 years as revealed by Alcohol and Drugs Information Centre India. Aim: This aim is to evaluate knowledge and attitude among men regarding ill effects of alcohol intake in men. Methods: In view of the nature of the problem and to accomplish the objective of the study, quantitative research approach was adopted for this study. Pre-experimental-One group pre test & post test design. A total of 473 men from 2 rural areas of Bagalkot were included in the study. They were given a validated knowledge and attitude questionnaire. A structured questionnaire was developed to collect the demographic information, a structured questionnaire was developed to assess the level of Knowledge and Attitude. Result: The analysis revealed that the Overall Mean difference between the pre-test and post-test level of knowledge was 0.54 with t-value 1.66 which was highly significant at p<0.001. The mean differences between pre-test and post-test attitude, was 0.25 with t-value 2.76. These scores were highly significant at p<0.001 level suggesting that the community based nursing interventions were effective in increasing the level of knowledge and improving the attitude among men. Conclusion: The study concluded that the community based nursing intervention strategies was effective in increasing the level of knowledge and improving the attitude among men, ...