Medication swallowing difficulties in people without dysphagia / Dificuldade de deglutição de medicamentos em pessoas sem disfagia
Souza, Laís Flavia; Nascimento, Weslania Viviane; Alves, Leda Maria Tavares; Silva, Ana Cristina Viana; Cassiani, Rachel Aguiar; Alves, Dauana Cassia; Dantas, Roberto Oliveira.
Rev. CEFAC
; 21(4): e0119, 2019. tab, graf
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| LILACS | ID: biblio-1041112
ABSTRACT
Objective:
to assess the difficulty in swallowing medications and correlate it with age and gender in healthy adults and elderly.Methods:
a total of 439 asymptomatic healthy volunteers (270 females and 169 males), who were not taking any medication on a regular basis, aged from 20 to 84 years, were questioned as for dysphagia, by using the Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10). Question number five of the EAT-10, specifically, approached the difficulty in swallowing drugs, considering zero as "no swallowing problem" and 1 to 4 as "some degree of difficulty" (4 as great difficulty).The chi-square test (x2) was used for the statistical analysis.Results:
a total of 365 (83%) volunteers reported having no difficulty in swallowing medications (89% of men and 80% of women), whereas 74 (17%) reported some degree of difficulty (11% of men and 20% of women)(p = 0.01). These represented 20% of those aged between 20 and 49, and 9% of those aged 50 and over (p = 0.02).Conclusion:
in this study, it was observed that both age and gender influence on medication swallowing, a difficulty more frequent among women and young adults. Some degree of difficulty was reported by 17% of the volunteers.
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