Abstract
This study aimed to clarify the process for inpatients with alcoholic liver diseases to decide to stop and continue abstaining from drinking in order to review nursing support to effectively help the patients.
We conducted semi-structured interviews involving six inpatients with alcoholic liver diseases and analyzed the results by the modified grounded theory approach (M-GTA). As the result, we observed, in the process for inpatients with alcoholic liver diseases to decide to stop and continue abstaining from drinking, [reviewing one’s own addiction to alcohol] and [learning about the drawbacks of heavy drinking] strongly motivated the patients to [decide to abstain from drinking and receive treatment], and the achievement of abstinence from drinking further motivated them to [decide to continue abstaining from drinking even after leaving the hospital] and actually do so.
The results suggest the need for nurses to help the patients review how they became addicted to alcohol and learn about the drawbacks of heavy drinking.
