Self-medication on the students in Health School from Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
Keywords:
Self-medication, Health, Students, Medicines, Higher educationAbstract
Introduction: the self-medication is a phenomenon more and more frequent and used for several years already, and its incidence and distribution are related with the organization and health. Following Medeiros thoughts (2011), this practice consists in the consumption of a medicine with the purpose of treating or relieving the symptoms and diseases or even promote self health, without using a professional prescription.
Methods: with this study, we intend to find the self-medication practice incidence on the students in the School of Health of Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESSa).
Objective: identify the motives that lead these students to resort to this methods and identify the most used medications. It’s a transversal descriptive, observational and quantitative study. To obtain the best results it was applied a questionnaire built for that purpose. The statistics analyses was made using Excel program. Our sample has 219 students of the School of Health from Polytechnic Institute of Bragança.
Results: the self-medication prevalence was 98%. The most used medicines was the analgesics and antipyretics with 86%. The most prevalent reason for the use of self-medication was the thought that the disease was a “minor health issue”(79,5%). It was also considered a risky practice by 77% of the students.
Conclusions: the self-medication is an evident practice on the ESSa students.
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