老人使用藥物之初探

Preliminary Study of Drug Use by the Elderly

邱啟潤(Chii-Jun Chiou) ； 仇方娟(Fang-Jiung Chun)

《The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences》 11卷3期 (1995/03) Pp. 164-169

https://doi.org/10.6452/KJMS.199503.0164

摘要

本研究是針對425位年齡六十五歲以上的老人，利用家庭訪視作結構式問春調查，完成266份問卷，其完成率為62.4 %。主要的研究目的為：1.了解老人使用藥物的症狀。2.了解老人使用藥物的比率及期間。3.了解老人用藥的主要理由及途徑“研完結果發現：1.老人用藥是個非常普遍且持久的問題。2.老人使用非處方菜物的比率有三成。3.人使用藥物的主要症狀是眼睛不適，高血壓，腰酸背痛、肌肉酸痛、神經痛。
本研究的建議：1.接觸老人時，要詢問用藥情形，以利高危險群之衛教。2.及早對年輕人推動高血壓防治、腰酸背痛預防之工作，以免老來受苦。

並列摘要

Out of 425 cases aged 65 and above, two hundred and sixty six cases were visited and surveyed with a structured questionnaire. The visitation rate was 62.4%. The purposes of this study were to:
1. Investigate the symptoms of drug-use among the elderly.
2. Reveal the percentage and the duration of drug-use among the elderly.
3. Understand the major reasons and methods of drug-use among the elderly.
The results of this study included:
1. Drug-use by the elderly was very popular and persistent.
2. Thirty percent of our subjects used nonprescription drugs.
3. The major symptoms of drug-use were eye-indisposed, hypertension, notalgia and muscle pain & neuralgia.
Our suggestions were:
1. It is very important to investigate the practice of drug-use among the elderly, so that health education for high risk people can be promoted.
2. Prevention of hypertension and notalgia while young is better than a cure while old.

並列關鍵字

drug use ； the aged