TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Adherence and barriers to drug therapy: relationship with the risk of falls in older adults
JO  - Texto e contexto enfermagem
A1  - Soares, Cristiane Regina
A1  - Fukujima, Marcia Maiumi
A1  - Costa, Paula Cristina Pereira da
A1  - Neves, Vanessa Ribeiro
A1  - Rosa, Anderson da Silva
A1  - Okuno, Meiry Fernanda Pinto
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VL  - 31
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N2  - OBJECTIVE: to verify the association of adherence and barriers to drug therapy with the risk of falls and the sociodemographic, clinical and economic variables. <br><br>METHOD: a cross-sectional study, carried out with 117 aged individuals in a Medical Clinic of Specialties for Older Adults in the Southeast region of the city of São Paulo (SP), from March to November 2019. The following scales were applied: Downton Fall Risk, Morisky-Green Test and Brief Medication Questionnaire. Logistic regression was use to verify the association between adherence to the treatment and types of barriers to adherence and the risk of falls. A 5% significance level was used. <br><br>RESULTS: the older adults with low adherence to the drug treatment presented 5.57 times more chances of having a high risk of falling when compared to those with greater adherence, and those with a barrier in the recall domain had 22.75 times more chances of having a high risk of falling, in relation to the aged individuals without barriers in the recall domain. <br><br>CONCLUSION: low and average adherence to drug therapy and the barrier related to the recall domain were associated with high risk of falls in the older adults.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0104-0707
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-265X-TCE-2020-0552
ID  - ref1
ER  -