Jae-Soon Yoo; Jongeun Lee; Woo-Young Park

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Factors Influencing Quality of Life of Alcoholics Anonymous Members in Korea: Jae-Soon Yoo, Jongeun Lee, Woo-Young Park; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2016;46(2):305-314.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2016.46.2.305
Published online: April 29, 2016

¹Department of Nursing Science, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea.

²Cheongju Community Addiction Management Center, Cheongju, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Lee, Jongeun. Department of Nursing Science, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, 1 Chungdae-ro, Seowon-gu, Cheongju 28644, Korea. Tel: +82-43-249-1834, Fax: +82-43-266-1710, agnes38@chungbuk.ac.kr

• Received: July 16, 2015 • Revised: July 23, 2015 • Accepted: January 11, 2016

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Abstract

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to determine quality of life (QOL) related factors in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) members based on PRECEDE Model.
Methods
A cross sectional survey was conducted with participants (N =203) from AA meeting in 11 alcohol counsel centers all over South Korea. Data were collected using a specially designed questionnaire based on the PRECEDE model and including QOL, epidemiological factors (including depression and perceived health status), behavioral factors (continuous abstinence and physical health status and practice), predisposing factors (abstinence self-efficacy and self-esteem), reinforcing factors (social capital and family functioning), and enabling factors. Data were analyzed using t-test, one way ANOVA, Tukey HSD test and hierarchical multiple regression analysis with SPSS (ver. 21.0).
Results
Of the educational diagnostic variables, self-esteem (β=.23), family functioning (β=.12), abstinence self-efficacy (β=.12) and social capital (β=.11) were strong influential factors in AA members' QOL. In addition, epidemiological diagnostic variables such as depression (β= - .44) and perceived health status (β=.35) were the main factors in QOL. Also, physical health status and practice (β=.106), one of behavioral diagnostic variables was a beneficial factor in QOL. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed the determinant variables accounted for 44.0% of the variation in QOL (F=25.76, p<.001).
Conclusion
The finding of the study can be used as a framework for planning interventions in order to promote the quality of life of AA members. It is necessary to develop nursing intervention strategies for strengthening educational and epidemiological diagnostic variables in order to improve AA members' QOL.
Keywords: Alcoholics anonymous; Quality of life; Self-esteem; Depression; Health status

This work was supported by the research grant of Chungbuk National University in 2013

The authors declared no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1

Conceptual framework.

Table 1

Quality of Life in Participants by General Characteristics (N =203)

^*M±SD=49.42±8.24; ^†M±SD=18.50±4.89.

Table 2

Values of Descriptive Statistics for Variables

Table 3

Association among Quality of Life, General Characteristics, and PRECEDE-PROCEED related Variables

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