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| Year : 2010 | Volume
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Knowledge, Awareness and Practices (KAP) among patients with hypothyroidism attending endocrine clinics of community hospitals in Chennai
S Kannan, L Mukundan, S Mahadevan, A Sathya, V Kumaravel, RV Bhat, U Sriram
Associates in Clinical Endocrinology, Education and Research (ACEER),203, III Floor, Awai Shanmugam Salai, Royapettah, Chennai 600014, India
Correspondence Address:
U Sriram
Associates in Clinical Endocrinology, Education and Research (ACEER),203, III Floor, Awai Shanmugam Salai, Royapettah, Chennai 600014
India
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Primary hypothyroidism is an extremely common disorder encountered in every endocrine clinic. We found that patients who have been on treatment and follow up elsewhere for many years lacked a basic understanding of their disorder and held wrong beliefs regarding the same. We felt a study on the knowledge, awareness and practices of patients with hypothyroidism would help the physician to focus on specific issues during patient education, clarify commonly held mis-beliefs during their consultation and thus enhance patient compliance and follow up. So we decided to do a KAP (Knowledge, Awareness and Practices) study on patients with primary hypothyroidism. A search carried out on Pubmed andMedscape did not reveal previous similar studies in medical literature. |
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