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Chronic diseases multi-morbidity among adult patients at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital

BACKGROUND: Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCCDs) multi-morbidity is becoming one of the public health problems in Ethiopia. The objective of this study was to describe the prevalence of NCCDs and multi-morbidity among adult patients at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital (HUCS...

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Autores principales: Woldesemayat, Endrias Markos, Kassa, Andargachew, Gari, Taye, Dangisso, Mesay Hailu
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5853145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29540155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5264-5
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author Woldesemayat, Endrias Markos
Kassa, Andargachew
Gari, Taye
Dangisso, Mesay Hailu
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Gari, Taye
Dangisso, Mesay Hailu
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description BACKGROUND: Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCCDs) multi-morbidity is becoming one of the public health problems in Ethiopia. The objective of this study was to describe the prevalence of NCCDs and multi-morbidity among adult patients at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital (HUCSH). METHODS: Between January and February 2016, a cross-sectional study was carried out among patients aged ⩾ 18 years attending the outpatient department of the hospital. Trained nurses interviewed patients and reviewed medical records. Multi-morbidity was defined as the coexistence of two or more NCCDs in an individual. RESULTS: Two hundred twenty seven (55.2%) of the respondents had at least one of the NCCDs and 73 (17.8%) of them had multi-morbidity. The commonest diseases that affected the patients were diseases of the musculoskeletal system. The risk of having NCCDs was highest among patients aged above 44 years (Adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 2.7, 95% CI 1.5–4.8). Non educated patients (AOR = 1.7, 95% CI 1.0–2.7) and patients with high household income (AOR = 1.6, 95% CI 1.0–2.5) and patients with a body mass index (BMI) of at least 25 (AOR = 2.0, 95% CI 1.1–3.7) had higher odds of having NCCDs. Highest odds of multi-morbidity was observed among patients aged above 44 years (AOR = 4.4, 95% CI 2.2–8.8). CONCLUSION: The prevalence of NCCDs and multi-morbidity among the study population was high. Identifying and addressing modifiable risk factors; screening, treatment and follow-up of patients with NCCDs could help in reducing the burden of NCCDs multi-morbidity and its effect. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-018-5264-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-58531452018-03-22 Chronic diseases multi-morbidity among adult patients at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital Woldesemayat, Endrias Markos Kassa, Andargachew Gari, Taye Dangisso, Mesay Hailu BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCCDs) multi-morbidity is becoming one of the public health problems in Ethiopia. The objective of this study was to describe the prevalence of NCCDs and multi-morbidity among adult patients at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital (HUCSH). METHODS: Between January and February 2016, a cross-sectional study was carried out among patients aged ⩾ 18 years attending the outpatient department of the hospital. Trained nurses interviewed patients and reviewed medical records. Multi-morbidity was defined as the coexistence of two or more NCCDs in an individual. RESULTS: Two hundred twenty seven (55.2%) of the respondents had at least one of the NCCDs and 73 (17.8%) of them had multi-morbidity. The commonest diseases that affected the patients were diseases of the musculoskeletal system. The risk of having NCCDs was highest among patients aged above 44 years (Adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 2.7, 95% CI 1.5–4.8). Non educated patients (AOR = 1.7, 95% CI 1.0–2.7) and patients with high household income (AOR = 1.6, 95% CI 1.0–2.5) and patients with a body mass index (BMI) of at least 25 (AOR = 2.0, 95% CI 1.1–3.7) had higher odds of having NCCDs. Highest odds of multi-morbidity was observed among patients aged above 44 years (AOR = 4.4, 95% CI 2.2–8.8). CONCLUSION: The prevalence of NCCDs and multi-morbidity among the study population was high. Identifying and addressing modifiable risk factors; screening, treatment and follow-up of patients with NCCDs could help in reducing the burden of NCCDs multi-morbidity and its effect. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-018-5264-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5853145/ /pubmed/29540155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5264-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Gari, Taye
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Chronic diseases multi-morbidity among adult patients at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital
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title_short Chronic diseases multi-morbidity among adult patients at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital
title_sort chronic diseases multi-morbidity among adult patients at hawassa university comprehensive specialized hospital
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5853145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29540155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5264-5
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