Table 3.
Prevalence of certain diseases and symptoms in concomitant users and in users of analgesics or psychotropics in a home-dwelling population aged at least 75 years
| Drug use | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analgesics and psychotropics n = 142 (%) | Analgesics and no psychotropics n = 222 (%) | Psychotropics and no analgesics n = 53 (%) | No analgesics and no psychotropics n = 106 | P* | |
| Perceived daily pain | |||||
| Interfering | 63 (44.4) | 85 (38.3) | 8 (15.1) | 19 (17.9) | 0.001 |
| At rest | 27 (19.0) | 29 (13.1) | 1 (1.9) | 3 (2.8) | 0.001 |
| Somatic multimorbidity# | 45 (31.7) | 40 (18.0) | 15 (28.3) | 28 (26.4) | 0.022 |
| Dementia | 29 (20.4) | 20 (9.0) | 16 (30.2) | 12 (11.3) | 0.001 |
| Depression | 62 (43.7) | 26 (11.7) | 14 (26.4) | 0 (0) | 0.001 |
| Sleeping problems | 61 (43.0) | 44 (19.8) | 22 (41.5) | 16 (15.1) | 0.001 |
| Fractures | |||||
| Hip | 19 (13.4) | 11 (4.9) | 5 (9.4) | 3 (2.8) | 0.004 |
| Wrist | 38 (26.8) | 55 (24.8) | 13 (24.5) | 35 (33.0) | 0.920 |
*
Chi-squared test;
#
pulmonary, cardiovascular, cerebral vascular, diabetes, locomotive or cancer.