Evaluación de conductas adictivas en personal médico y no médico en un hospital de agudos
Objetive: To identify nicotine, alcohol, eating and self medication problems (abuse, dependency and addiction) in an acute general hospital´s staff. Material and Methods: Protocolized, decriptive study by means of a structured, autoadministered and anonymous survey. Four groups were studied: Doct...
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| Publicado en: | Revista Médica Universitaria |
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| Sumario: | Objetive: To identify nicotine, alcohol, eating and self medication problems
(abuse, dependency and addiction) in an acute general hospital´s staff.
Material and Methods: Protocolized, decriptive study by means of a structured,
autoadministered and anonymous survey. Four groups were studied: Doctors
(D) (DS: Staff and TD: training doctors), Non D: nurses (N) and others (O:
administratives, laboratories, pharmacys, general services) that was compared
to a previous study carried out in the year 2004. Data was analyzed with
EpiInfo 6.04 .
Results: 373 people responded: 195 D (73 DS and 122 TD), 83 N and 92 O;
225 were women (60.3%). The mean age was 36.1 years (DS±9.98); 77.5%
had an stable couple, 98.1% were heterosexual and 67.3% were university
graduates. 67.3% were self-medication users, 35.1% active cigarette smoking;
28.4% had problems with alcohol and 36.2% eating disorders. Nicotine was
more frequent between 40-50 year old people (42.5%) and in N: 56.6%; DS:
21.9%; TD: 27% and O: 36.9% (p<0.05). In comparison to the previous study,
there has been an increasing attempt to quit smoking (74.6 vs 56.3%)(p<0.05).
Problems with alcohol were more frequent between 20 and 30 year old people
(47.2%), in persons with an unstable couple (73.6%), without differences
between the groups and coexisted with nicotine addiction in 51.8% . Eating
problems was more common in TD(46.9%) compared with the DS (22.5%)
(p<0.05). Self medication was detected in 68.3% of the Group O and in 48.1%
of D (p<0.05). After having compared the results regarding self medication in
both studies (2004-2007), a reduction was detected in N (87.8 vs 52.4%) and O
(77.5 vs 48.1%) (p<0.05) .-
Conclusions: High prevalency of nicotine abuse, alcohol, eating and selfmedication
problems was detected amongst hospital staff. Nicotine addiction
was prevalent in nurses, problems with eating in training doctors and
alcoholism in single people.
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