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Assessment of quality of life in patients with primary hypothyroidism - the main criterion of treatment effectiveness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

O. Pityk
O. Pityk*
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Narcology And Medical Psychology, Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine Psychiatry, Narcology And Medical Psychology Department, Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Abstract

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Introduction

Сurrent research suggests that the assessment of the quality of life of patients with somatic and mental pathology should be one of the main criteria for assessing the quality of treatmen. Given this view, one of the valid assessment of the performance of integrated mental health and the effectiveness of treatment should be considered as quality of life, defined by WHO. Leading mental health criteria based on such factors as adaptation, socialization and individualization.

Objectives

The aim was to investigate the quality of life of patients with hypothyroidism with non-psychotic mental disorders. We examined 132 patients with hypothyroidism. The age of patients ranged from 25 to 55 years. The main group included 108 patients with non-psychotic mental disorders, which are dominated asthenia (27.78 %), asthenic- depressive (32.41%) and asthenic-anxiety disorders (18.52%). The control group consisted of 24 patients with hypothyroidism without mental disorders.

Methods

Quality of life was assessed using a questionnaire developed by Mezzich, Cohen, Ruiperez, Liu & Yoon (1999), covering the three main components of quality of life: subjective wellbeing/satisfaction, fulfillment of social roles, external living conditions.

Results

Found a significant difference in quality of life in patients with main and control group. The average in the overall perception of life (sense of satisfaction and happiness in general) in the main group was 5.19±1.15, in the control group 7.50±2.25.

Conclusions

The main conclusion is that patients with hypothyroidism really need psychiatric consultation and treatment should include not only endocrinological influence but neuropsychopharmacological and psychological too.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

quality of lifehypothyroidismnonpsychotic mental disorders
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S648
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