Assessment Of Thyroid Function Tests For The Diagnosis Of Subclinical Hypothyroidism And Detection Of Clinical Hypothyroidism In Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital.

Background: Cancer of the cervix is the second most common form of cancer amongst SouthrnAfrican women. Cervical cancer ranks as the 2nd most frequent cancer among women inrnEthiopia, and the 2nd most frequent cancer among women between 15 and 44 years of age.rnCompliance has been defined as “the extent to which a person’s behavior coincides withrnhealthcare advice” or as when patients do what health professional’s recommend.rnNoncompliance is typically cited as occurring in from 50% to 75% of patients. rnObjective: The purpose of the study was to assess compliance to treatment services andrnassociated factors with treatment compliance of cervical cancer patients in TASH, oncology unit. rnMaterials and methods: Institutional based cross sectional quantitative study was conductedrnfrom February, 8-April, 22/2012. A total 314 cervical cancer patients were the studyrnparticipants. Data was collected using structured questionnaire based interview and secondaryrndata collection also used. After clearing and checking for consistency data were coded andrnentered in to EPI-INFO(version-5.3.1) and transported into SPSS version 16.00 software torndetermine frequency, OR and association tests were examined through Binary and multivariaternlogistic regression . rnResult: Out of 314 interviewed cervical cancer patients 219(69.7%) were compliant butrn95(30.3%) were non compliant to the treatment services. The reason as identified by 39(41.0%)rnof the respondents with non compliant to the treatment services was long duration ofrnappointment time and 20(20.0%) of the participants due to medication side effect on the bodyrnwas examined in the study area. There is a significant difference between the participantsrn121(78.6%) who had missed their appointment time with, OR=2.32(1.408, 3.882) and prnvalue=0.001 than the respondents 98(61.2%) of cervical cancer patient of treatment compliance. rnConclusion: the findings of the study about the treatment service were partially non compliant to rnradiotherapy and cheomradations services and patients missed their appointment were 2.3 timesrnnon compliant than who were not missed the appointment time. Factors in low income level,rnmissing appointment, medication side effect, prolonged treatment, poor understanding of rntreatment advantages were significantly affects treatment compliance based on binary andrnmultivariate logistic regression analysis .

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