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Need help in formulating questionnaire
I am doing research/thesis on treatment of tuberculosis among known diabetics. I require advice in formulating a questionnaire. Any suggestions?
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In formulating a questionnaire we have to identified what the construct of our subject or research title and goals. All of item in the questionnaire are belong to the construct of research concepts. -
You have to consider all the clinical parameters of both diabetic and tuberculosis in your questionnaire because your research goal is on treatment of tuberculosis. -
my exact title is 'prospective study on tuberculosis treatment outcome in diabetic patients registered under RNTCP in Bangalore.
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very good topic u have picked up. keep it up!
explain a bit about yr methodology, aim and 2 main objective..
this is a new area so u may go for case control study too.
cases = diabetics who got TB
control = who are non diabetic and got TB..
al the best and give some info abt method and aim, will try to help. -
Thank you..Malay Shah...
Ya am taking 75 patints with TB with DM, 150 TB without DM in Bangalore city. Looking for treatment outcome who are on DOTS under RNTCP. -
then u should have these many que
... sputum conversion at the end of IP and CP
... culture conversion at the end of IP and CP
... relief of symptoms after x months of Rx (cough, fever, wt gain etc)
... duration of Rx (in cat 1 and 2 separately)
... try 2 have adequate sample size in both group so that at the end u can compair them
... no of defaulters
... no of failure
.. no of relapse
.. no of death
.. no of hospital admissions due to respiratory morbidity
still a lot que.. better u send yr questionnaire and u belong to medicine or psm? -
Thanks a lot..
Am a psm pg.. -
It will be interesting and hope you can get reasonable nuber of cases for study. May be the drug interaction of anti-diabetic and antitubercular could be studied. One can find out the incidence of ADR among diabetics when treated for tuberculosis. May take a look.
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Yes. You can convince some of the pharmacology people to do same as u will get sample,, so 1 time sampling --> more studies ...
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Your questionnaire may include questions on:
*Demographics
*Presence or absence of diabetes: main predictor
*Clinical characteristics: weight and height of the patient (BMI), because well nourished patients may have a better outcome, type of diabetes, control of diabetes, duration of diabetes, co-morbid illnesses such as hypertension, type of drug used for treatment of diabetes, etc...
*Type of TB, Duration, Complications of TB, Type of drug used for treatment, co-morbid pneumonia or HIV etc..
*Quality of TB care provided by the facility
*Adherence of the patient to treatment -
Very intersting research, if the survey will be done to pacients it is very important to operacionalize the variable , cases well defined , lenguage easy to undestand and cultutral apropiated , It is necessary to validate the questionnaire in a small pilot . -
I think Elias has provided a very good schema of your questionnaire: sections, and their contents. -
So, where you reached in your study, brother?
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your questionnaire should be based upon your aims and objectives.Also it is better to have pilot study so that you can get idea regarding its feasibility based upon time frame of your study.
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Your questionaire should be base on the title and research that your making. Like for example are you looking the treatment of TB with diabetes or are you looking for incidence of Tb on diabetes (vice versa). There are lots of questions that can be formulated. I suggest you post your title or the main thought of your research study so we could help you out in formulating questionaires. -
My question is the pronostic of women in postabortum with mifigyne
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I think Elias has covered the majority of the factors you may need to cover in your questionnaire you may consider the surrounding environmental conditions in this case housing/ accomodation and type of diet one has during the treatment process.
As Mike has suggested having your concept and objectives may help in covering the critical aspects of your study
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... sputum conversion at the end of IP and CP
... culture conversion at the end of IP and CP
... relief of symptoms after x months of Rx (cough, fever, wt gain etc)
... duration of Rx (in cat 1 and 2 separately)
... try 2 have adequate sample size in both group so that at the end u can compair them
... no of defaulters
... no of failure
.. no of relapse
.. no of death
.. no of hospital admissions due to respiratory morbidity
still a lot que.. better u send yr questionnaire and u belong to medicine or psm?
*Demographics
*Presence or absence of diabetes: main predictor
*Clinical characteristics: weight and height of the patient (BMI), because well nourished patients may have a better outcome, type of diabetes, control of diabetes, duration of diabetes, co-morbid illnesses such as hypertension, type of drug used for treatment of diabetes, etc...
*Type of TB, Duration, Complications of TB, Type of drug used for treatment, co-morbid pneumonia or HIV etc..
*Quality of TB care provided by the facility
*Adherence of the patient to treatment