Obesity and quality of life in female patients with hashimoto’s thyroiditis

Abstract

Objective: To determine the obesity frequency and quality of life in female patients with hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and also to determine the factors affecting quality of life. Methodology: The study was conducted with 214 women in Cumhuriyet University Health Services Application and Research Hospital in Sivas, Turkey. Data were collected by the patient diagnosis form and the Short Form-36 (SF-36) Quality of Life Scale. Percentage, mean, kappa consistency measurement, student t test, one way ANOVA and Pearson correlation analysis were used for statistical evaluation. Results: Almost half of the women were in the risk group for abdominal obesity. Participants were found to have the highest quality of life related to pain, and the lowest quality of life related to emotional role limitations. It was determined that women had difficulties in performing their activity daily living due to disease and obese women had lower quality of life in all sub-scales (p<0.05). Conclusions: Obesity was found in more than one third of women with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, the quality of life was found to be low in emotional terms and presence of obesity affect the quality of life in women with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.