استعرض مصدر Discrepancies Between Elderly Patient’s Self-Reported and prescribed medications: A Social Investigation



Discrepancies Between Elderly Patient’s SelfReported and Prescribed Medications: A Social Investigation

Prof. Nada Yasein, Prof. Farihan Barghouti, Prof.
Yacoub Irshaid, Dr. Ahmad Suleiman
The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

Paper num: 142

Background and purpose

To study some characteristics of the elderly people
attending the family practice clinic at the Jordan
University Hospital (JUH) and to evaluate their
knowledge of the prescribed drugs.

Methods

A total of 400 elderly people (180 men and 220
women) aged 71 ± 5.8 years were studied regarding
sociodemographic characteristics and the use of
medicinal and nonmedicinal remedies. In addition,
agreement between self-reported drug information
and information taken from the medical records was
also evaluated. The chi-square test was used to
examine the associations between categorical
variables.

Results

Almost one-third of the patients had full agreement
between their knowledge of total number of drugs
they take and the numbers found in the medical
records, whereas 43.4% underestimated and 21.8%
overestimated these numbers. Five drugs/classes were
accurately estimated by the patient (methyldopa,
ezetimibe, warfarin, statins and antigout drugs).
Underestimation was noticed in 17 drugs/classes and
overestimation in 14. The significantly underestimated
drug classes were biphoshponates, proton pump
inhibitors, sulfonylureas and antiepileptic drugs.

Conclusions

Some aspects of elderly people were evaluated
regarding their medication knowledge. Almost twothird
of the patients did not take their drugs in the
proper way.

The results of the study highlight the importance of
taking several actions by all healthcare workers and by
the community to optimize health care provided for
elderly people.




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