Investigação sobre a automedicação em estudantes de um curso superior de enfermagem de uma cidade do Sertão paraibano.

Abstract

The practice of using chemicals in order to prevent diseases, improve the health status and / or maintenance is observed since ancient times, and for some it is using the process called: self- medication. It is considered that the consumption of a drug without the guidance of a trained professional, is the use of incorrect doses and / or use by an inadequate period. With regard to the nursing students, the practice is considered alarming in order to have greater access to scientific information and becomes more serious when it comes to individuals who already have scientific knowledge of Pharmacology. Research on screen it is a study with a quantitative approach, developed together with the students of the undergraduate course in Nursing at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) - Campus Cajazeiras, in the year 2016, involving students who attend from the first to the seventh period and has the objective to: assess the amount of students who use this practice; analyze which gender makes more use of the practice; and to examine what types of drugs are most used among students; investigate quantitatively whether there has been emergence of adverse reactions reported after the practice of self-medication, and if during the course, with the knowledge acquired, there was an increase or decrease of the same. The results were organized according to the variables studied, where it shows that 100% of individuals used non-prescription drugs; the female is 94.3% and men 5.7%; drugs with a higher incidence of use have analgesic, antiinflammatory and antipyretic; the incidence of students who reported not having presented any adverse effects was 83.02%, while only 16.98% reported having presented some adverse effect. From the results presented, we conclude that the practice of self-medication is quite widespread among scholars of all covered periods, which shows the great need for intervention with these students with more effective approach with regard to the risks of self- medication.