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Background Self-medication and non-adherence to treatment are very common practice. This often implies bad results for the patients, as well as for the physicians. Several studies suggest that up to 30–40% of the population is non-adherent to treatments. This problem generates 5% of all hospitalizations, having caused about 45,000 deaths in 2007 in Argentina. Materials and methods A 21-question survey was carried out among 176 patients with psoriasis in the Psoriasis Center at the Fernandez Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Results Seventy-seven percent of the patients were non-adherent to treatment, and 33% were self-medicated. The two groups combined accounted for 82% of the population studied. We found no significant differences among the variables studied in either the non-adherence or the combined group, although males comprised 67% and females 33% of the self-medicated group, and that difference was statistically significant (P |
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