Objective: To analyze the change in morbidity care in the year of the beginning of the pandemic (2020) compared to the pre-pandemic year (2019). Material and Methods: Quantitative, descriptive, non-experimental - documentary design. Sample: first level health care facilities in the province of Ica. Non-probabilistic sampling.  Technique: documentary analysis of official documents from health facilities. Morbidity care was analyzed considering the ICD-10 classification in one health facility and in the other the months of care and in both cases in the different stages of life considered by MINSA. Inferential analysis: 95% confidence interval, the confidence interval for the difference of proportions and for the measure of association; chi-square, the estimate of the p value (<0.05).  Results: The most important decrease, considering ICD-10, occurred in chapter VII (eye diseas...

Objective: To analyze the extent to which members of the community of a private university report the presentation of adverse drug reactions related to COVID-19 pharmacotherapy. Material and Methods: Quantitative approach, cross-sectional descriptive type, non-experimental design, the sample was 159 members of the university community, stratified probabilistic sampling, the technique was a virtual survey, the instrument was a questionnaire made with Google Forms; the results were expressed as mean, standard deviation, percentage frequency, and for the statistical analysis the following tests were used: chi square and 95% confidence interval with a significance level 0.05. Results: most of the participants were female (63.32%), married (59.12%) and with a mean age of 44.46 years; most of them were teachers (50.31%), from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biochemistry; 44.65% (71 p...

Objective: To determine cyberchondria and its relationship with polypharmacy among students of Franklin Roosevelt University in Huancayo. Material and Methods: The research is applied in nature. It follows a cross-sectional design regarding the study period and is correlational in terms of its level. The design is non-experimental. Results: The average cyberchondria score was 2.93, indicating a moderate level of cyberchondria in the studied population. Overall, each dimension also showed a moderate level. A moderate level of cyberchondria was found in 68.9% of participants, while only 4.8% exhibited a high level. Additionally, 5.2% reported using more than four medications, which is classified as polypharmacy according to WHO criteria. Among participants with a moderate level of cyberchondria, 57.1% reported engaging in polypharmacy, whereas only 7.1% of those with a high level of cyberc...