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    Automedicación en pacientes del servicio de farmacia de consulta externa 2 del Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, abril de 2014
    (Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2015) Quiroga Gutiérrez, Dina; Rodríguez Parodi, Diana Leonor; Caldas Herrera, Emma
    Self-medication is a common practice in the Peruvian population that has become a serious public health problem. Self-medication is understood as the use of medicines without prior consultation with a professional physician. Objective: To verify the characteristics of self-medication in patients of the outpatient pharmacy service No. 2 of the Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen National Hospital, April 2014. Methodology: A descriptive, observational, prospective cross-sectional study was conducted. To calculate the population size, data provided by the Statistics Department of the Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen National Hospital from January to March 2014 were used. The three-month average was a total of 8,777 patients. The study sample consisted of 368 patients directly surveyed in April 2014. A validated data collection instrument (survey) was used. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 19.0. Results: Of the total 368 patients surveyed, 100% practiced self-medication. Female sex had a prevalence of 54.62%. The most consumed drugs were anti-inflammatories (26.90%), antipyretics/cold remedies (20.11%), analgesics (16.58%), and antibiotics (12.23%). The main diseases or symptoms for self-medication were joint pain (44.3%), acute respiratory infection (29.6%), and gastrointestinal infection (12.2%). The main causes of self-medication were: having knowledge about the medicines to treat the disease (82.88%), delay of medical appointments (75.27%), lack of time to attend medical consultation (66.30%), no prescription required at the pharmacy (63.32%), and recommendation by third parties (57.61%). The level of knowledge about the consequences of self-medication was high, with 67.70%. Conclusions: The characteristics of self-medication were verified in patients of the outpatient pharmacy service No. 2 of the Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen National Hospital in April 2014, with a prevalence of 100%. Joint pain and acute respiratory infection were the most frequent symptoms for self-medication. The most consumed pharmacological groups were anti-inflammatories and cold remedies.