Assessment of the financial status in adult diabetic patients attending the diabetic clinic in Bankura Sammilani medical college, Bankura

Abstract

Introduction: Diabetes and its complications impose significant economic consequences on individuals, families, health systems and countries. People living with diabetes and their families feel the impact of diabetes most directly, often through the expenses of diabetes treatment and loss of family income when diabetes interferes with work. Objective: To assess the financial status of adult diabetic patients attending the diabetic clinic of Bankura Sammilani Medical College, Bankura. Materials and Method: It is an Institution based, Cross-sectional, descriptive Study. Complete enumeration of all patients attending Diabetic clinic of Bankura Sammilani Medical College and hospital, Bankura, West Bengal was done. Eligible consenting of adult patients (>18 years of age) who were diagnosed as a case of diabetes at least 1 year back and on treatment were interviewed with review of medical record and Outof pocket expenditure information was collected in terms of INR. It views the cost of NCDs as the sum of several categories of direct and indirect costs. The study was preceded after obtaining ethical clearance. Data were entered in MS Excel spread sheet. Calculation was done with the help of software SPSS 22.0 free version. Results: Majority of annual treatment expenses of study subjects were in Drugs and consumables (66.73%) followed by Investigation cost 15.19% and others. The average INR for annual total diabetes care was 13,733.17±13,389.86. Conclusion: Drugs and consumables, investigation and transportation cost leads to more than 90.0% of outof pocket expenditure causing financial burden on both adult diabetic patient and its family.