TITLE:
Hypothyroidism—A Question towards Quality and Patient Centricity
AUTHORS:
Hina Rehman, Syed Junaid Rehan, Humera Ishaq, Sadia Shakeel, Faraz Hashmi, Safila Naveed
KEYWORDS:
Hypothyroidism, Quality, Patient Centricity, Empowerment
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases,
Vol.5 No.2,
February
26,
2015
ABSTRACT: The
metabolic and endocrine disorders are either increasing across the globe or may
have been observed with more focus in recent years. It is not uncommon now to
find out neither patients of endocrine and metabolic disorders nor a physician
of the associated diseases. There were 42 million people who had thyroid
disorders including hypothyroidism according to the survey of endocrine society
of India. Hypothyroidism is said when less activity of thyroid glands is
observed then the normal. So, to evaluate the quality standard, empowerment and
patient centricity in Pakistan with present prevalence of hypothyroidism in
different age groups, gender along with the prescribed medication against pre
diagnosed disease and associated co-morbidities, the study is designed with a
questionnaire development including both qualitative and quantitative
variables. Study was conducted on various OPD’s, profit and not for profit
secondary and tertiary care hospitals and consultant clinics during July 2013
to Jan 2014 and it was given consideration to include people from all areas of
life with minimization of any unforeseen biasness and comprehensive data. After
full filling the inclusion criteria, 102 patients were selected as study
participants. After completion and reviewing the questionnaire, data were
analyzed by 21.00 SPSS version. Chi square/ fisher test, spearmen’s rank
correlation were applied for categorical quantitative variable. Paired t test
before and after were applied for qualitative variable. Highly significant
reliability of items in the questionnaire was found along with inter item
correlation (P