Conocimiento y práctica de automedicación por COVID-19 en personas atendidas en la Institución de Salud Fernando Lores I-2 Iquitos 2021

• Autor: Lozano Guerrero, Alejandro Jhonatan
• Formato: tesis de grado
• Fecha de Publicación: 2024
• Institución: Universidad Nacional De La Amazonía Peruana
• Repositorio: UNAPIquitos-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unapiquitos.edu.pe:20.500.12737/10549
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12737/10549
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Automedicación; Conocimientos, actitudes y práctica en salud; COVID-19; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.03

The objective of the study was to determine the relationship between the knowledge and practice of self-medication for COVID-19 in adults aged 18 to 75 years of both sexes treated at the IPRESS I-2 Fernando Lores in Iquitos, 2021. The type of research It was quantitative, non-experimental and correlational in design, the population was 250 people and the sample was 151 people. The technique was the interview and the instruments were two questionnaires: self-medication knowledge questionnaire for COVID-19, which had 96.67% validity and 94.0% reliability, and the self-medication practice questionnaire for COVID-19 with a validity of 90.0% and a reliability of 88.0%. The study determined that knowledge about Self-medication for COVID-19 was incorrect with 94.0% and correct with 6.0%; self-medication for COVID-19 is severe 72.2%, moderate 22.5% and mild 5.3%. When applying the Chi Square, significant results were obtained for the relationship between both variables (X 2=13.123; gl=2; p=0.001). The study concludes that there is a relationship between the knowledge and practice of self-medication for COVID-19 in adults treated at the IPRESS I-2 Fernando Lores in Iquitos.