BIOSTAT

1. What is the profile of the respondents as to: a. Age b. Occupation

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1 1
1 1
50 1 1
1 1
1 1 1
40 1 1 1
1 1
1 1
60 62
30
54 52 53
50 51 50
46 47
43 42 42
20 40 40 38 40
35 37 35

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0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

age housewife vendor employee teacher doctor

The figure above indicates that the ages of the respondents are ranging from 35-62
years old.
Majority of the respondents are teachers, next to the majority are housewives,
employees, and vendors. The least are doctors.
 2. What is the level of pain experienced by the patients in terms of:
a. Numerical scale
b. Verbal scale
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50
Age
Type 1 Incision
40
Pain scale (numerical)
Pain Scale (verbal)
30
Type 2 Incision
Pain scale (numerical)
20
Pain Scale (verbal)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

The level of pain experienced by the patients that undergone through Type 1 incision in
pain numerical scaling are higher compared to the verbal pain scaling. In type 2
incision, the verbal pain scaling has higher score than the numerical pain scaling..
 3. What post operation complication were observed?

Post Operation Complications

Sepsis Bleeding Allergies Dehiscence Elisseration

15%

25%

10%

15%
35%

According from the data that was gathered, bleeding has the most number of cases of
complications that happened to the patients. While dehiscence had the lowest
occurrence to the patients.
 4. Is there a significant relationship between the
a. Age of the respondents and the level of pain
b. The age of respondents and the post operation complications
c. The level of pain and the type of incision

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60
Age
50
Type 1 Incision
40 Pain scale (numerical)
Pain Scale (verbal)
30
Type 2 Incision
20 Pain scale (numerical)

10 Pain Scale (verbal)

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

According to the data gathered, there were no relationship between the age of the
respondents and the level of pain. The levels of pain tolerance per respondents were
different from each other regardless of their age.
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50 age
Sepsis
40
Bleeding
30 Allergies
Dehiscence
20
Elisseration
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

According to the data gathered, there was no significant relationship between the age of
the respondents and the post operation complications. The data that is shown above
that every respondent had a post operative complication with different types of cases
regardless of their age.
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3
Pain scale (numerical)

2
Pain Scale (verbal)

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Figure 1 Type 1 Incision

3 Pain scale (numerical)

Pain Scale (verbal)
2

0
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Figure 2 Type 2 Incision

The two figures above shows the difference of pain scale (verbally and numerically)
between type 1 and type 2 incision. The data that was gathered and analyzed shows
that type 2 incision has a higher scores in both numerical and verbal pain scaling. And
this only shows that there is a significant relationship between the level of pain and the
type of incision.
 5. Based on the findings of the study, what type of thyroidectomy is recommended?
Type 1 Type 2

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5 5

4 4

Pain scale
3 Pain scale 3 (numerical)
(numerical)
Pain Scale
2 Pain Scale (verbal)
2
(verbal)
1
1

0
0
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19

Based on the comparison of the findings of the study, Type 1 incision had the lower
score in pain scaling (verbally and numerically). Which means that Type 1 is more
recommended due to its low scores of pain.

Type 1 Incision Post Type 2 Incision Post

Operation Operation Complications
Complications Sepsis Bleeding Allergies

Sepsis Bleeding Allergies Dehiscence Dehiscence Elisceration

10%
10%
20% 30% 30%

60%
10% 20% 10%

Comparing the post operation complication of each type, type 1 is easier to anticipate its
possible complication which we can modify by practicing proper wound care. Therefore,
based in the findings of this study, Type 1 incision is more recommended in
thyroidectomy.
 Don Mariano Marco Memorial State University
South La Union Campus
COLLEGE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH AND ALLIED MEDICAL SCIENCES
Agoo La Union

BIOSTAT

Effect of Perpendicular and Parallel Thyroidectomy on the patients of LUMC

Estalilla, Melchizedek P.
Loquias, Paula Richie B.
BSN-III

Milagros Baldemor
Instructor