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Self-medication in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: A cross-sectional study in northern Peru.
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- Food insecurity in Piura, Peru, in the context of post-earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Association between love breakup and suicidal ideation in Peruvian medical students: a cross-sectional study during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Antibiotic Self-Medication Patterns and Associated Factors in the Context of COVID-19, Medellín, Colombia: A Survey Based Cross Sectional Study.Patient preference and adherence · 2023Article
- Out-of-pocket expenditure and catastrophic costs due to COVID-19 in Indonesia: A rapid online survey.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Epidemiological Characteristics of Deaths from COVID-19 in Peru during the Initial Pandemic Response.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Self-Medication Patterns during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ecuador.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Clinical-epidemiologic variation in patients treated in the first and second wave of COVID-19 in Lambayeque, Peru: A cluster analysis.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2022Article
- The effects of biological sex and cardiovascular disease on COVID-19 mortality.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2022Article
- Self-medication Practices During the Covid-19 Pandemic in a Latin American Country: A Cross-sectional Survey Study.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Resilience in Medical Students: A Multicenter Study from 13 Latin American Countries.Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)Article
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Abstract
Introduction: This study aimed to identify factors associated with self-medication in patients with COVID-19. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using medical records of patients with COVID-19 who self-medicated before admission to a hospital in Piura, Peru. Prevalence ratios and 95% confidence intervals were estimated using generalized linear models with Poisson distribution family, log link function, and robust variance. Results: Out of 301 patients, 165 (54.8%) self-medicated before hospital admission, being more frequent self-medication with ivermectin (85.5%) and azithromycin (71.5%). The frequency of self-medication in those aged between 30-59 years was 2.53-fold higher than in those between 18-29 years. Male patients, dyslipidemia, smoking, and hepatic steatosis were associated with self-medication. Clinical characteristics associated with self-medication were fever, cough, headache, anosmia, dysgeusia, nausea/vomiting, and gastroesophageal reflux. Conclusions: A high frequency of self-medication before hospital admission was observed in Peruvian patients with COVID-19, mainly of drugs without proven efficacy.
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