Self-medication due to COVID-19 symptoms in rotating Nursing interns
Introduction: self-medication can generate adverse reactions, drug interactions, delay and failure in the diagnosis of the disease, resistance to antibiotics and loss of health resources. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is reported that the frequency of adverse reactions due to self-medication has...
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| author | Zuly Rivel Nazate-Chuga Alexandra Roxana Rebolledo-Solis Alexandra Patricia Abata-Erazo Reudis Durán-Rodríguez |
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| description | Introduction: self-medication can generate adverse reactions, drug interactions, delay and failure in the diagnosis of the disease, resistance to antibiotics and loss of health resources. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is reported that the frequency of adverse reactions due to self-medication has doubled.
Objective: to identify the various causes and factors that affect self-medication by COVID-19 in rotating Nursing interns at the "Luis Gabriel Dávila" Hospital in Tulcán, Ecuador.
Method: a descriptive-analytical-correlational cross-sectional study was carried out on self-medication in 64 rotating Nursing interns of said institution in the period 2020-2021. Methods were used: empirical, analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive, historical-logical level. The questionnaire was the technique applied to characterize the current state. The collected data was exported to Microsoft Excel v.2013.
Results: 50.3% of Nursing inmates took frequent medication, 60.9% self-medicated with analgesics in the presence of symptoms due to COVID-19. 29.7% presented sore throat as a symptom of COVID-19, followed by fever with 26.5%. 78.1% used the oral route. 55.0% of these inmates always had free access to medications in their rotations; which prompted 42.2% to self-medication.
Conclusions: the results obtained serve to characterize the problem of self-medication by COVID-19 in university students and provide information for the formulation of strategies that reduce its negative impact. The university and health authorities must dedicate efforts to the problem of self-medication by COVID-19, since it is a public health problem worldwide. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7dcac2544769476292ccec33f6aabc292023-12-29T01:40:35ZspaUniversidad de Ciencias Médicas de GuantánamoRevista Información Científica1028-99332023-04-01102010.5281/zenodo.78435622438Self-medication due to COVID-19 symptoms in rotating Nursing internsZuly Rivel Nazate-Chuga0Alexandra Roxana Rebolledo-Solis1Alexandra Patricia Abata-Erazo2Reudis Durán-Rodríguez3Universidad Regional Autónoma de los AndesUniversidad Regional Autónoma de los AndesUniversidad Regional Autónoma de los AndesHospital General Docente "Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja", BaracoaIntroduction: self-medication can generate adverse reactions, drug interactions, delay and failure in the diagnosis of the disease, resistance to antibiotics and loss of health resources. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is reported that the frequency of adverse reactions due to self-medication has doubled. Objective: to identify the various causes and factors that affect self-medication by COVID-19 in rotating Nursing interns at the "Luis Gabriel Dávila" Hospital in Tulcán, Ecuador. Method: a descriptive-analytical-correlational cross-sectional study was carried out on self-medication in 64 rotating Nursing interns of said institution in the period 2020-2021. Methods were used: empirical, analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive, historical-logical level. The questionnaire was the technique applied to characterize the current state. The collected data was exported to Microsoft Excel v.2013. Results: 50.3% of Nursing inmates took frequent medication, 60.9% self-medicated with analgesics in the presence of symptoms due to COVID-19. 29.7% presented sore throat as a symptom of COVID-19, followed by fever with 26.5%. 78.1% used the oral route. 55.0% of these inmates always had free access to medications in their rotations; which prompted 42.2% to self-medication. Conclusions: the results obtained serve to characterize the problem of self-medication by COVID-19 in university students and provide information for the formulation of strategies that reduce its negative impact. The university and health authorities must dedicate efforts to the problem of self-medication by COVID-19, since it is a public health problem worldwide.https://revinfcientifica.sld.cu/index.php/ric/article/view/4218automedicaciónsíntomascomplicacionesinternos rotativoscovid-19enfermería |
| spellingShingle | Zuly Rivel Nazate-Chuga Alexandra Roxana Rebolledo-Solis Alexandra Patricia Abata-Erazo Reudis Durán-Rodríguez Self-medication due to COVID-19 symptoms in rotating Nursing interns Revista Información Científica automedicación síntomas complicaciones internos rotativos covid-19 enfermería |
| title | Self-medication due to COVID-19 symptoms in rotating Nursing interns |
| title_full | Self-medication due to COVID-19 symptoms in rotating Nursing interns |
| title_fullStr | Self-medication due to COVID-19 symptoms in rotating Nursing interns |
| title_full_unstemmed | Self-medication due to COVID-19 symptoms in rotating Nursing interns |
| title_short | Self-medication due to COVID-19 symptoms in rotating Nursing interns |
| title_sort | self medication due to covid 19 symptoms in rotating nursing interns |
| topic | automedicación síntomas complicaciones internos rotativos covid-19 enfermería |
| url | https://revinfcientifica.sld.cu/index.php/ric/article/view/4218 |
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