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KMID : 0379220140340040843
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2014 Volume.34 No. 4 p.843 ~ p.855
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Status of Elders’ Medication Misuse and Knowledge
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Jo Hyun-Sook
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study were to identify the status of elder’s medication knowledge and misuse, and to analyze difference in it by demographic, health, and medication characteristics. Data were collected from 258 elders (over 65yrs) involved in two welfare facilities from Aug. 22 to Sept. 26, 2012 using a questionnaire, and analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Duncan post verification. Results of this study were as follows: Mean score for medication misuse was as low as 1.95(0-7), and that for medication knowledge was as medium as 3.39(0-6). Difference in subjects’medication misuse showed significant statistically by characteristics of medication side effect experiences, side effect symptoms, and kind of prescribed or non-prescribed medication. Then subjects’ medication knowledge also showed significant difference by age, educational level, type of disease, recognition of medication side effect, type of medication, number of medication prescribed, and kind of prescribed or non-prescribed medication. Those findings from this study might be used as bases for better understanding on elders’medication knowledge and for preventing elders’medication misuse.
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KEYWORD
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elder , medication misuse , medication knowledge
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