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Characterization of medication use among the elderly of North Portugal
| dc.contributor.author | Pinto, Isabel C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pereira, Fernando A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mateos-Campos, R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-14T15:43:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-03-14T15:43:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Aging associated with chronic comorbidities leads to Polypharmacy, but the complex therapies in elderly can lead to therapy non-adherence, increasing costs and several health risks. Objectives: To characterize medication use and related factors among northern Portuguese elderly. Methods: This cross-sectional population-based study was centered on a structured interview to 442 elderly (ā„65 years), non-probabilistic sample by convenience, at home and institutions in northern Portugal. It was considered as polymedicated seniors taking ā„5 drugs daily. Beers criteria (2012) were used to evaluate the potentially inappropriate medication use. It was used descriptive statistics and univariate and multivariate statistical analysis, with a significance level of 5%. Results: The sample consisted mainly of females (56.6%), aged between 65 and 101 years (mean 76.84 Ā± 8.07). The prevalence of medication use was 97.3%. Most elderly are polymedicated (54.1%), on average 5.15 different drugs are administered per day. The most commonly prescribed groups were: cardiovascular drugs (82.8%), central nervous system agents (54.2%) and drugs with an effect on the digestive tract (40.9%). According to the Beers criteria, 53.5% of seniors taking potentially inappropriate medication. Polypharmacy was positively associated with living in littoral sub-region (p<0.001), having a reasonable (p=0.002) or poor health self-perception (p<0.001), self-reported chronic diseases (p<0.001) and number of doctors (p=0.003). Conclusions: Results shows a high proportion of medication use among the northern Portuguese elderly, including potentially inappropriate. The risk of polypharmacy is related to coastal region, perception of reasonably/poor health, chronic diseases and the number of doctors. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Pinto, Isabel C.; Pereira, Fernando; Mateos-Campos, R. (2016). Characterization of medication use among the elderly of North Portugal. In 3rd World Congress of Health Research. AtenciĆ³n Primaria. ISSN 0212-6567. 48 (Esp Cong 1), p. 45-45 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0212-6567 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10198/16296 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | pt_PT |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | http://www.elsevier.es/es-revista-atencion-primaria | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Beers criteria | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Elderly | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Medication | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Polypharmacy | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Characterization of medication use among the elderly of North Portugal | pt_PT |
| dc.type | conference object | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Viseu, Portugal | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 45 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.issue | 48 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 45 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | 3rd World Congress of Health Research | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | (Espec Cong 1):25-120 | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Pinto | |
| person.familyName | Pereira | |
| person.givenName | Isabel C. | |
| person.givenName | Fernando A. | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 851B-247F-C650 | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | C51E-6B11-C82F | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-4745-6489 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-3294-3084 | |
| person.identifier.rid | A-5556-2018 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 57192927859 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | conferenceObject | pt_PT |
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