Table 3.
Relationship between PP and potential risk factors (significant relations)
| Studied factor | Drugs, n |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–4 | 5–8 | >8 | χ2 | d.f. | p value | |
| Sex | ||||||
| Female (n = 240) | 71 (29.6) | 135 (56.3) | 34 (14.2) | 7.97 | 2 | 0.019 |
| Male (n = 260) | 86 (33.l) | 157 (60.4) | 17 (6.5) | |||
| Level of education | ||||||
| Lower than secondary school | 76 (27.3) | 161 (57.9) | 41 (14.7) | 26.92 | 10 | 0.003 |
| Higher than secondary school | 81 (36.5) | 131 (59.0) | 10 (4.5) | |||
| Hospital admissions (n) | ||||||
| None (n = 174) | 95 (54.6) | 68 (39.0) | 11 (6.4) | |||
| 1–2 (n = 286) | 61 (21.3) | 191 (66.8) | 34 (11.6) | |||
| >2 (n = 40) | 1 (2.5) | 32 (80.0) | 7 (17.5) | 81.76 | 8 | <0.001 |
| History of falls | ||||||
| No (n = 312) | 133 (84.7) | 159 (54.5) | 20 (39.2) | |||
| Yes (n = 188) | 24 (15.3) | 133 (45.5) | 31 (60.8) | 52.86 | 2 | <0.001 |
| Visited clinics (n) | ||||||
| 1 (n = 125) | 78 (62.4) | 40 (32.0) | 7 (5.6) | |||
| 1 (n = 346) | 78 (22.5) | 234 (67.6) | 34 (9.8) | |||
| >2 (n = 26) | 1 (3.8) | 15 (57.7) | 10 (38.5) | 95.77 | 4 | <0.001 |
| Comorbidities (n) | ||||||
| 1–2 (n = 104) | 76 (73.0) | 27 (26.0) | 1 (1.0) | 120.93 | 4 | <0.001 |
| 3–4 (n = 272) | 70 (25.7) | 174 (64.0) | 28 (10.3) | |||
| >4 (n = 124) | 11 (8.9) | 91 (73.4) | 22 (17.7) | |||
Values are presented as numbers (%) unless otherwise stated.