Isolation: a key factor in the rate of alcoholism among the deaf and hard of hearing, 2001
Franklin, Iika P.
2001-05-01
Alcoholism is prevalent in the Deaf community, and due to the very nature of the disability, deafness is often associated with isolation. It is hypothesized that isolation of the Deaf community is a key factor in their alcoholism rates. In this study, alcoholism is defined as the habitual use of alcoholic liquor despite its harmful consequences and without the ability to stop. Deafness is considered as the missing ability of a person to process linguistic information through audition, with or without hearing aids. For the purpose of this study isolation is defined as a perceived or real exclusion from those of the hearing population as through rejection. The setting of this study was the Georgia Council of the Hearing-Impaired in Metro Atlanta. The questionnaire was given to the participants during home visits of a Deaf advocate/interpreter. The independent variable of this study was isolation and the dependent variable was the alcoholism rate. Descriptive statistics were used in order to examine differences in the respondents. Crosstabs were used to analyze the findings. There are no clear relationships between isolation within the Deaf population and the rate of alcoholism in their community.
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Master of Social Work (MSW)
Atlanta University
School of Social Work
Rhone, Joanne V.
Clark Atlanta University
Georgia--Atlanta
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2001_franklin_iika_p
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
