地域特性に基づいた断酒会活動―岐阜県飛騨地方の経験から―

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There is a network of Danshukai in Hida area of Gifu Prefecture. Each Danshukai consists of small number of people and acts on community care for alcoholic. We describe here course and background of accomplishment of the network, and showed its usef ullness. 1) A Danshukai consisting of large number of people had been established in 1970. However, when the number of people who continue Danshu (giving up drinking) increased, the group dynamics was altered to secondary social relation and then beginners and people who did not continue Danshu tended to leave the group. To improve the movements of Danshukai, we have established a type of Danshukai consisting of small number of beginners (referred as small group Danshukai) in 1981. According to a principle that all the attendants have primary social relation to each other, we conducted this community. Since the small group Danshukai was well received by many people, similar type of Danshukai was established one by one without much effort. 2) By using the people left from our hospital as an object, we examined relations between the small group Danshukai and Danshu. It was found that the rate of number of people who continue Danshu and the rate of number of people who belong to Danshukai significantly increased after accomplishment of the network of the small groups of Danshukai. Furthermore, the people living in the place with Danshukai were able to continue Danshu and to belong to Danshukai longer, in comparison with the people living in the place without Danshukai. 3) The main causes that the network was accomplished more easily in Hida area were discussed, regarding characteristics of mental structure in Hida people and the regional trait.