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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana
versión impresa ISSN 1814-5469versión On-line ISSN 2308-0531
Resumen
CUCHO-VASQUEZ, Kelly carolina; LOO-VALVERDE, María elena y CHANDUVI-PUICON, Willer David. Self-medication in children with diseases of the upper respiratory tract in a mother-child center in Peru. Rev. Fac. Med. Hum. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.2, pp.95-100. Epub 18-Abr-2023. ISSN 1814-5469. http://dx.doi.org/10.25176/rfmh.v23i2.5657.
Introduction:
self-medication is a common practice to alleviate symptoms of various diseases, in the child population such as pharyngitis and rhinopharyngitis that are common in health centers in Peru.
Objective:
to determine the factors associated with self-medication in children with upper respiratory tract diseases.
Material and methods:
analytical cross-sectional observational study. The sample size was 206 parents who went with their children to the emergency service. A questionnaire approved by Valenzuela m was used. And the SPSS program to find the frequency, the bivariate analysis and the multivariate analysis of Poisson logistic regression.
Results:
the prevalence of self-medication in children was 91,3%. Parents who only studied primary and secondary school were more likely to self-medicate their children PRa=1,22 (95% CI: 1,01-1,40). The first-born were protected from self-medication PRa=0,86 (95% CI: 0,76-0,97). Parents who were between 20 and 29 years of age obtained PRa=1,04 (95% CI: 0,96-1,13), children under 7 years old, PRa=0,99 (95% ci: 0,91-1,07) and parents of family that had 1 child PRa=1,04 (95% CI:0,90-1,20).
Conclusions:
the educational level and the order number of the child, such as being the first-born, had a significant association with self-medication in children.
Palabras clave : self medication; epidemiologic factors; respiratory tract diseases; child. (source: mesh - nlm).