Disease pattern and satisfaction about health care services among patients attending a selected geriatric hospital in Dhaka city
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https://doi.org/10.18203/issn.2454-2156.IntJSciRep20231097Keywords:
Geriatric patient, Health care services, Satisfaction levelAbstract
Background: The proportion of elderly people is increasing at an unprecedented rate globally as well as in Bangladesh. Exploring the current situation it terms of magnitude and pattern of diseases suffered by elderly people would be a good resource for the policy makers in considering health care services and other supports for the elderly.
Methods: A cross sectional descriptive study was done during January 2021 to December 2021 among elderly patients aged 60 years and above. A total of among 203 Patients form both indoor and outdoor department were included. A pretested questionnaire was used to collect the data collection. SPSS V23 software program were using analyzed data.
Results: Among them 98 (48.25%) patients were suffering from communicable disease of which the most common (38.9%) was tuberculosis. On the other hands 201 patients were suffering from non- communicable disease of which the most common was Hypertension (HTN) (73.4%) followed by diabetes mellitus (DM) (36.5%), peptic ulcer (33%) and COPD (31%). The higher educated patients were significantly more dissatisfied compared to lower educated patients about drug dispensing (77.9% vs. 59.6%). Similarly, higher educated patients were significantly more dissatisfied compared to lower educated patients about nursing care (41.3% vs. 26.3%). The patients from urban area were significantly more dissatisfied compared to that of rural area about drug dispensing (76.7% vs. 58.6%).
Conclusions: The study findings reveal that non-communicable diseases are the major bulk of diseases in elderly population in comparison to communicable diseases and HTN, DM, peptic ulcer, COPD were the common non-communicable diseases.
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