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    POLIFARMACIA Y ADHERENCIA FARMACO LÓGICA EN ADULTOS MAYORES DE UNA ZONA RURAL
    (2025-10-03) Quispe Cañaveral, Silvana Estefanía; Macias Ferreiro, Karina; Universidad Técnica de Ambato / Facultad de Ciencias de Salud / Carrera de Enfermería
    Older adults gradually undergo a series of irreversible morphological and physiological changes as a response to ageing, increasing the risk of developing chronic, degenerative diseases which generate long-term or permanent pharmacological treatments, making polypharmacy almost inevitable. Objective: To analyse the impact of polypharmacy on drug adherence in older adults in a rural area. Method: A quantitative approach study, non-experimental design, correlational scope, cross-sectional, the population consisted of 60 older adults from the ‘Canitas de Oro’ Care Unit, obtaining a final sample of 21 adults who met the exclusion and inclusion criteria. Pharmacological adherence was determined using the Adherence to Medication Collection and Administration questionnaire translated into Spanish (ARMS-e). To determine the relation between variables, the non-parametric Spearman's Rho correlation test was applied. Results: It was identified that 35% were older adults with polypharmacy and multipathology, in which the average polypharmacy predominated with 47.6%, and on applying Spearman's Rho test its coefficient was equal to 0.885 and with a significance value equal to 0.000 < 0.05, accepting the alternative hypothesis. Conclusion: polypharmacy is a factor that directly affects pharmacological adherence, since there was a high correlation between polypharmacy and pharmacological adherence to treatment.