Prevalence of Alcohol and Tobacco Use in India and Implications for COVID-19 - Niyantrita Madhumeha Bharata Study Projections
| Autor: | Suchitra S. Patil, Amit Singh, Raghuram Nagarathna, Madhava Sai Sivapuram, Hongasandra Ramarao Nagendra, Akshay Anand |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Mindfulness Alcohol Drinking Universities Substance-Related Disorders Cross-sectional study India Alcohol abuse Anxiety Legal substance abuse tobacco diabetic yoga protocol Tobacco Use 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Niyantrita Madhumeha Bharata Risk Factors Environmental health Prevalence Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Tobacco Use Epidemiology Risk factor Students Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Ethanol SARS-CoV-2 alcohol business.industry Yoga Public health COVID-19 General Medicine medicine.disease Substance abuse Alcoholism Cross-Sectional Studies Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Female Original Article medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Medicine and Life |
| ISSN: | 1844-3117 1844-122X |
| DOI: | 10.25122/jml-2020-0079 |
| Popis: | Abuse of legal substances in India includes alcohol and tobacco, which are the major risk factors for various non-communicable diseases and deaths. The current pandemic has identified tobacco consumption as a risk factor for COVID-19, highlighting the need to control substance abuse. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of substance abuse in India and discuss the cost-effective public health strategies (such as yoga) to alleviate COVID-related anxiety in order to prevent substance abuse and its associated co-morbidities such as type 2 diabetes mellitus. This study reports the data on tobacco and alcohol abuse from a nationwide randomized two-arm diabetes control trial (Niyantrita Madhumeha Bharata, 2017) conducted by the Indian Yoga Association (IYA) through Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-VYASA), Bengaluru. Data of 30,354 participants who abuse tobacco and 30,159 participants who abuse alcohol were collected all over India. The prevalence is estimated at around 8.7% for alcohol abuse and 7.9% for tobacco abuse, Arunachal Pradesh state ranking the highest regarding both alcohol and tobacco abuse, while the Tripura state ranked the lowest. School and college-based mandatory yoga programs need to be implemented to prevent the increase of substance abuse in India to alleviate the psychosocial stress of adolescents and college-going students, besides the installation of the mindfulness-based diabetes yoga protocol (DYP) in the wellness centers of Ayushman Bharat. |
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