2004, Number 1
Compliance with hormonal substitute-suppressive treatment in patients with thyroid cancer
Medrano Ortiz ZME, González ÁG, Aguilar ME
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Language: Spanish
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Page: 31-35
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: fulfilling medical treatment means the central objective to control and govern any kind of sickness, is a process where there is a commitment between the medical physician and the patient. In chronic illness, 50% of patients do not comply with medical instructions and those considered at a dangerous stage fell into a range of 31 to 49 %.Objective: our objective was to determine whether patient knowledge of illness is a conclusive factor in non-compliance with medical prescriptions for thyroid cancer.
Design: survey.
Intervention: the questionnaire was applied and considered demographic data, patient knowledge of illness, and compliance with medical prescriptions.
Results: we studied 32 patients with 48.1 ± years of age; 48.3 % completed primary school, 55.1 % were married, 68.7 % recognized their disease satisfactorily when confronted with the thyroid profile, and 81.2 % had euthyroidism. We found sensitivity of 77 % and 66 % specificity under fulfillment probability ranging from 0.6 to 1.25, as well as exactness of 0.75.
Conclusions: we were unable to demonstrate that lack of knowledge of the disease was the cause of patient non-compliance with medical prescriptions.
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