The aim to assess various contributing factors related to hypothyroidism for adult patients , and find out the relationship between some demographic characteristic (age, gender, level of education ) with risk factors.

 Methodology: A descriptive study was conducted at the outpatient department  in department of medicine , PMCH , Patna in  period between October 2016 to May 2017 in order to assess the risk factors related to Hypothyroidism for adult patient.

A random sample consisted of (50) patients from suffering hypothyroidism who were systematically admitted to the outpatient consultation were selected one by one. A questionnaire was constructed for the purpose of the study, which is comprised of three parts that include :( 1) Socio demographic Characteristics data (2)The past medical history for patient and family(3) Assessment of risk factors related to diet , psychological factors, social factors and medication . Reliability and validity of questionnaire was determined through test re–test (r= 0.861) of pilot study. Data was collected by the researcher who interviewed those patients and filled out the constructed questionnaire form. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistical approach (frequency, percentage and mean of score) and inferential statistical approach (stander deviation and correlation coefficient).


Results: The study findings indicated that there is highly significant difference between Women and man the incidence of hypothyroidism disease more than female. It is aged between (28–37) years old for hypothyroidism patients, the most of study sample primary graduates and urban setting. Our results also show that there is significant difference between history of thyroid disease patient and non–history of thyroid disease patients.

 Conclusion: from the study that past history of thyroid disease raises the risk to develop hypothyroidism disease.
Recommendations: The study recommends that the further research aimed at established the new department for early detection hypothyroidism for adult patient and education program for nurses to improve the patient quality of life.