Medication swallowing difficulties in people without dysphagia Laís Flavia Souza Weslania Viviane Nascimento Leda Maria Tavares Alves Ana Cristina Viana Silva Rachel Aguiar Cassiani Dauana Cassia Alves Roberto Oliveira Dantas 10.6084/m9.figshare.10073216.v1 https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Medication_swallowing_difficulties_in_people_without_dysphagia/10073216 <div><p>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.</p></div> 2019-10-30 02:40:20 Swallowing Swallowing Disorders Oral Administration Aging