Education of drinking habit for the patients with gout and hyperuricemia

Abstract

There are various lifestyle - related diseases including gout and hyperuricemia that can be improved by reducing alcohol intake. Many treatment guidelines set appropriate volumes of alcohol intake, however, specific educational methods are not mentioned. The The Use Disorders Identification Test （ AUDIT ） that consists of 10 questions to identify drinking - related problems. They proposed an educational method that aims to improve recognition of the necessity of reducing alcohol intake by utilizing AUDIT and repeated support as brief intervention to achieve this goal. absolute the and appropriate alcohol 20 g individual goals to reduce alcohol consumption. interviews were with 3 patients, revealing that all of had achieved their goals and showed decreases in the γ GTP value. The subject group of this study was very small and support for reducing alcohol intake was limited. Daily educational methods to tackle drinking problems will be revised based on the results.