A Novel Scale for Assessing the Burden of Caregiving for Functionally Compromised Patients: Proposal and Validation.

Background: Disability not only burdens the patient, but also the caregiver. To quantify this caregiving burden, we propose a simple four-part questionnaire tool. Our objective is to validate this questionnaire by administering it to caregivers who oversee patients with low back pain and are functionally compromised.

High-risk behavior in patients with alcohol dependence.

Context: Severity of alcohol dependence is related to the high-risk behavior of alcohol dependents.

Aim: To assess the high-risk behavior in patients with alcohol dependence and study the association between them.

Settings And Design: This is a descriptive study of high-risk behavior in patients with alcohol dependence, conducted over a period of 15-month duration that is from January 2011 to April 2012 on 200 alcohol-dependent patients (178 men and 22 women) in the Department of Psychiatry, Mamata Medical College and General Hospital, Khammam (TS), India.