Consumo de medicamentos por idosos, Goiânia, Brasil
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2013
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OBJECTIVE: To analyze the pattern of use of medications use in aged people
and associate it with socioeconomic aspects and with the self-rated health.
METHODS: A population-based cross-sectional design study with 934 elderly
people from Goiania, Midwestern Brazil, between December 2009 and April
2010. Data were collected through a questionnaire. The dependent variable was
the number of medications consumed and the independent variables were sex,
marital status, education, type of residence, age, income, and self-rated health.
Drugs were classifi ed according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical
Classifi cation. The inappropriate drugs for the elderly were identifi ed according
to the Beers-Fick criteria. The tests used were Chi-square and Fisher’s exact
test, p was considered signifi cant when < 0.05.
RESULTS: The elderly consumed 2,846 medicines (3.63 medications/person).
The most commonly consumed were those which act in the cardiovascular
system (38.6%). The prevalence of polypharmacy was 26.4% and selfmedication
was 35.7%. The most used drugs for self-medication were
analgesics (30.8%), 24.6% of the elderly consumed drug considered
inappropriate. Women, widows, those aged 80 or over and with worse self-rated
health were more likely to practiced more polypharmacy. Most self-medication
was associated with lower levels of education and worse self-rated health.
CONCLUSIONS: The pattern of drug use by the elderly was similar to that
found in the elderly in other regions of Brazil. The number of drugs used, the
prevalence of self-medication and practice of polypharmacy and inappropriate
drug use were within the national average.
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Idoso, Uso de medicamentos, Quimioterapia combinada, Medicamentos de uso contínuo, Automedicação, Auto-avaliação diagnóstica, Estudos transversais, Aged, Drug utilization, Drug therapy combination, Drugs of continuous use, Self medication, Diagnostic self evaluation, Cross-sectional studies
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SANTOS, Thalyta Renata Araújo et al. Consumo de medicamentos por idosos, Goiânia, Brasil. Revista de Saúde Pública, São Paulo, v. 47, n. 1, p. 94-103, 2013.