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Therapy adherence and polypharmacy in nonāinstitutionalized elderly from Amares county, Portugal
dc.contributor.author | Pinto, Isabel C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Pires, TĆ¢nia C.S.P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Gama, João | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-21T18:12:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-21T18:12:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.description.abstract | Polypharmacy is frequent in elderly, and therapy adherence is a crucial component to achieve the effectiveness of treatment, but the complex therapies in elderly can lead to therapy non-adherence, increasing costs and several health risks. Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of therapy adherence, polypharmacy and associated factors in elderly. Methods: This cross-sectional study was based on a questionnaire, with MAT scale (measure of adherence to therapy) validated for the Portuguese population (Delgado & Lima, 2001), applied to 159 elderly (ā„65 years) living in his home in Amares county, in northern Portugal. To assess therapy adherence, those whose average adherence levels were ā„5 were called adherent, and it was considered as polymedicated seniors taking ā„5 drugs. It was used descriptive statistics, correlations were accessed using qui-square test and adjusted residuals (AdR) for variables categories, with a significance level of 5%. Results: The sample consisted mainly of females (54.7% vs. 45.3%), aged between 65 and 96 years old (mean 74.6), while 50.3% was between 65-74 years old. The participants show good therapy adherence (69.8%), being highly polymedicated (58.5%) with an average of 5.5 different drugs administered per day. Non-adherence is associated with having mental disorders (p=0.002) and respiratory system diseases (AdR=2.0), and seems to be related with being polymedicated (AdR=1.7) and bad health perception (AdR=1.3). Having hypertension, cholesterol, depression, mental disorders (p=0.001), pain (p=0.003) and diabetes (p=0,014) are related to polypharmacy. Conclusions: This study shows a considerable prevalence of therapy adherence and polypharmacy, being several factors associated with these phenomena. | pt_PT |
dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
dc.identifier.citation | Pinto, Isabel C.; Pires, TĆ¢nia; Gama, JoĆ£o (2016). Therapy adherence and polypharmacy in nonāinstitutionalized elderly from Amares county, Portugal. In The 3rd IPLeiriaās International Health Congress. Leiria. p. 15-16 | pt_PT |
dc.identifier.issn | 1472-6963 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10198/16458 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
dc.publisher | Unidade de Investigação em Saúde (UIS) da Escola Superior de Saúde do IPLeiria | pt_PT |
dc.relation.publisherversion | http://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/ | pt_PT |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
dc.subject | Elderly | pt_PT |
dc.subject | Non-institutionalized elderly | pt_PT |
dc.subject | Polypharmacy | pt_PT |
dc.subject | Therapy adherence | pt_PT |
dc.subject | Therapy non-adherence | pt_PT |
dc.title | Therapy adherence and polypharmacy in nonāinstitutionalized elderly from Amares county, Portugal | pt_PT |
dc.type | conference object | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Leiria, Portugal | pt_PT |
oaire.citation.endPage | 16 | pt_PT |
oaire.citation.issue | 16 | pt_PT |
oaire.citation.startPage | 15 | pt_PT |
oaire.citation.title | 3rd IPLeiriaās International Health Congress | pt_PT |
oaire.citation.volume | Supplement 3: O38 | pt_PT |
person.familyName | Pinto | |
person.familyName | Pires | |
person.givenName | Isabel C. | |
person.givenName | TĆ¢nia C.S.P. | |
person.identifier | 2118829 | |
person.identifier.ciencia-id | 851B-247F-C650 | |
person.identifier.ciencia-id | 321E-2D96-00CA | |
person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-4745-6489 | |
person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-3954-3833 | |
person.identifier.rid | Q-2842-2018 | |
person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 57057440000 | |
rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
rcaap.type | conferenceObject | pt_PT |
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