Uso de benzodiazepínicos por usuários de uma unidade de saúde da família em um Município do “alto sertão Paraibano”.

Abstract

The Primary Health Care in Brazil is the gateway to the many patients who seek the Unified Health System ( SUS ) when they are sick , and the Basic Health Service has the feature to promote actions in health , both at collective and individual , with the goals early diagnosis of diseases , their treatment as well as rehabilitation and maintenance of patient health . We investigate the use of benzodiazepines for users of a family health unit ( FHU) in a city of high Paraiba backwoods . And to identify the factors that lead users to a USF consumption of benzodiazepines . Checking the frequency of benzodiazepine use by users of a USF and verifying that users of benzodiazepines receive professional guidance on adverse and beneficial effects of these drugs . Field survey of descriptive and explanatory way , aiming to cover the most relevant factors that predisposes individuals to the use of the drug was carried out and explain this phenomenon of the large amount of consumption of benzodiazepines . In a quantitative approach to organize tables into categories of factors , this research was conducted in the Basic Health Unit in the Municipality of Cajazeiras - PB in that the study population was composed of all members of the Family Health Program (PSF) in 1420 families ; the sample consisted of all patients who were drug treatment with anxiolytics , especially with Benzodiazepines were also 19 people . We realize that most users are female , over 60 , retired , use the drug daily, one tablet , the anxiolytic diazepam is the most used , most were oriented on the action of the drug in the treatment , but the minority was not focused on the adverse effects , since most did a previous and current treatment in large part the reason for the medication was to insomnia . The study shows that factors related to use of the product , in particular difficulty sleeping (insomnia ) , was the main reason for the use of psychotropic medicine . Through our descriptive analysis , we also observed that should have a more focused attention to the female population and over 60 , retired , housewives , because they are more prone to drug use , therefore we see the need for educational measures to guide this population about the risks of chronic use of anxiolytics and especially for the realization of measures of switching and monitoring the gradual discontinuation of chronic use of psychotropic drugs for these users.