• Sao Paulo Med J · Mar 2022

    Effects and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on medicine use by employees of a Brazilian public university: a cross-sectional study.

    • Waléria de Paula, Wanessa Cecília de Oliveira, Adriana Lúcia Meireles, Renata Cristina Rezende Macedo do Nascimento, and Glenda Nicioli da Silva.
    • MSc. Doctoral Student, Postgraduate Program on Pharmaceutical Sciences (CiPharma), School of Pharmacy, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP), Ouro Preto (MG), Brazil.
    • Sao Paulo Med J. 2022 Mar 1; 140 (2): 250-260.

    BackgroundDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, universities have had to adopt remote education, a strategy that caused sudden changes of routine for everyone involved in academia.ObjectiveTo assess the profile of medicine use by the employees of a Brazilian public university during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design And SettingCross-sectional study at a Brazilian public university.MethodsEmployees were invited to answer an online self-administered questionnaire, containing questions on sociodemographic features, medicine use, mental health and lifestyle habits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The outcome variable was the use of medicines stratified according to occupation. Descriptive, bivariate and multivariate (Poisson regression) statistical analyses were performed.ResultsA total of 372 employees participated in the study and use of medicine was reported by 53.2%. Among professors, suicide attempts (prevalence ratio [PR], 1.81; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.20-2.74), physical activity (PR, 1.53; 95% CI, 1.11-2.11) and poor self-rated health (PR, 1.29; 95% CI, 1.01-1.66); and among technicians, decreased workload during the COVID-19 pandemic (PR, 1.41; 95% CI, 1.00-1.99), excess body weight (PR, 1.39; 95% CI, 1.02-1.88) and poor self-rated health (PR, 1.48; 95% CI, 1.14-1.92) were positively associated with use of medicines. In addition, among technicians, engaging in physical activity (PR, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.46-0.78) was a protective factor against medicine use.ConclusionThe profile of medicine use among these employees was similar to that of the Brazilian population. However, some associated factors may have been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, thus highlighting the need to examine this topic in a longitudinal study.

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