Efficacy of Role Play on Ill Effects of Alcoholism among College Going Students

Abstract

Introduction: Alcoholism is the most serious type of substance addiction which includes drinking habits
and unable to control them. It is also called as Alcohol Dependence Syndrome or Alcohol use disorder.
Aim: To determine the efficacy of role play on ill effect of alcoholism among college going student.
Materials and Method: Purposive sampling was used to collect data from college going students by using
structured knowledge questionnaire regarding ill effects of alcoholism with their selected demographic
variables.
Results: The mean pre-test knowledge score was 12.27 and mean post-test knowledge score was 25.19.
There was a statistically significant improvement in the level of knowledge regarding ill-effects of alcoholism
among college going students. The tabulated value for n=100-1 i.e. 99 degrees of freedom was 1.98. The
calculated ‘t’ value i.e. 58.96 are much higher than the tabulated value at 5% level of significance for
overall knowledge score of college going students which is statistically acceptable level of significance and
noassociation was found between post-test knowledge score with their selected demographic variables.
Conclusion: The demand of increase knowledge regarding ill effects of alcoholism is important among
college going students because they are more prone to consuming alcohol due to recreation, experience and
specially peer pressure