The aim of the study is to assess and evaluate the prevalence of polypharmacy among the community pharmacy setup in urban population. Information pertaining to the age, sex, education levels, social habits, drug prescribing patterns, disease conditions pertaining to polypharmacy and intervariable factors of different diseases were collected. The study includes 103 patients, among which 72 (69.90%) were male and 31 (30.10%) were female. The prevalence of polypharmacy in our study was higher in male population 72 (69.90%) and the major fraction of the patients were in the age of 19-45 years (64.07%). The literacy rate observed in the urban population was 89.31%. The major polypharmacy was observed in 4 drug regimen prescriptions of patients (40.77%) and hypertension 15(14.56%) followed by diabetes 15(14.56%) and muscular cramps 12(11.65%) were the most common ailments. Intervariable factors were observed in our study as 27 (26.21%) in chronic diseases and 22 (21.35%) in acute diseases. Polypharmacy was a frequent condition in urban population and the most important predictor for the polypharmacy was the type of disease treated. Polypharmacy can be avoided by sharing the decisions with pharmacist for making the treatment goals and plan. The goal should be to prescribe the least possible complex drug regimen for the patient, while considering the symptoms, medication problems and of course cost of the therapy.
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