Automedicación con benzodiacepinas y riesgo de abuso en adultos Hospital San Juan de Lurigancho 2019

Abstract

Objective: To establish the relationship between self-medication with benzodiazepines and the risk of abuse that requires treatment in patients of legal age at the San Juan de Lurigancho Hospital, 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 non-randomly. A survey was used to determine demographics, benzodiazepine use, and ASSIST 3.0 questions.

Results: Among the respondents, 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 those surveyed, 485 were considered as consumers of benzodiazepines with prescription and the other 389 consumers without a prescription. Prescription and non-prescription consumers needing treatment were 129 (26.60%) and 245 (62.98%), respectively (p <0.001).

Conclusions: There is a higher prevalence of people who need treatment for abuse in the group of 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 adult patients at San Juan Hospital of Lurigancho in the year 2019