Prevalencia y factores asociados a la automedicación con AINES en adultos mayores en las parroquias urbanas de Cuenca, 2014

Abstract

Introduction: globally is estimated that 85% of older adults consume a drug of which 20% require hospitalization due to. medication problems, this has become a burden in our society since that according to the INEC 6.4% of the Ecuadorians are older adults, who are at HIGH risk of self-medicating with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs due to finding relief from suffering various diseases. Objective: determine the prevalence of self-medicating with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and associated factors in the elderly of urban parishes of Cuenca. Material and methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on 328 adults over 15 urban parishes of Cuenca, using questionnaires. The information collected was analyzed by frequency, percentage and measures of central tendency and dispersion average measures such as prevalence ratio with 95% CI and CHI square statistical significance. Results: of the 328 respondents 70.9% affirm having an illness and 26% affirm selfMEDICATION with NSAIDs. This practice was more common in women and in the age group between 65-74 years. Being the most common cause of self-medication muscle pain with a 37.6%. Of those who self-medicated with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs 32.90% did it on own initiative and 30.5% considered not to go to a physician. The marketing influenced 8.9 more times in self-medication with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory in older adults (RP 8.987, 95% CI 4.5 - 14.1) with a value of p=0.000