Automedicación y riesgo de abuso con benzodiacepinas en pacientes adultos Lima-Perú, 2019

• Autores: Cabanillas-Tejada, John K., Allpas-Gómez, Henry L., Brito-Nuñez, Jesús D., Mejia, Christian R.
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener
• Repositorio: UWIENER-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uwiener.edu.pe:20.500.13053/7978
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13053/7978; http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/s0717-92272022000300273
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: self-medication, benzodiazepines, abuse, prescription.; http://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.00

“Introduction: Benzodiazepines have the potential to generate abuse, so an indiscriminate consumption, through the sale without prescription and the practice of self-medication, would mean a high risk due to their abuse. Objective: To establish the relationship between self-medication with benzodiazepines and the risk of abuse that requires treatment in adult patients of Hospital San Juan de Lurigancho, 2019. Methodology: It was an observational, correlational descriptive, transversal and prospective study. The sample size was 874 participants (95.0% confidence level; 80% power). Sampling was performed nonrandomly. A survey was used to determine demographics, benzodiazepine use, and questions of Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST). Results: Of the study population, the most prevalent demographic data were female sex (74.5%), the median age was 52 years (interquartile range: 40-62 years), the age range 50-59 years (26.43%), married marital status (31.6%), secondary education level (48.4%) and occupation as a housewife (47.3%). Of adults studied, 485 were considered as consumers of benzodiazepines with prescription and 389 consumers without a prescription. Prescription and nonprescription consumers needing treatment were 129 (26.60%) and 245 (62.98%), respectively (p <0.001). Conclusion: There is a higher prevalence of people who need treatment for abuse in consumers without a prescription than in the group of consumers with a prescription so there is a significant relationship between self-medication with benzodiazepines and the risk of abuse that requires treatment in study population.“