Acesso, segurança e uso de medicamentos por usuários

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Raul Vasconcelos [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Farache Filho, Adalberto [UNESP], Galduróz, José Carlos, Mastroianni, Patricia de Carvalho [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://ojs.unesp.br/index.php/revista_proex/article/view/677; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/133814
• topic: Pharmaceutical assistance; Family health program; Drug utilization; Drug storage; Atención farmacéutica; Salud de la familia; Uso de medicamentos; Almacenaje de medicamentos; Assistência farmacêutica; Programa Saúde da Família; Uso de medicamentos; Armazenagem de medicamentos

The present study aims to identify families who have stock and are making use of medications, as well as assess the conditions of storage, security and use of these drugs. The study was conducted in a city of São Paulo, the interviews were conducted in households enrolled in one of ten units of the Estratégia de Saúde da Família (ESF) that the city provides and the sample was defined by means of stratified random sampling (134households, IC 95%). Data collection was conducted through interviews with a semistructured questionnaire during the first half of 2011. We interviewed 118 (88.0%) households, of which 112 (95.0%) had medications that were stored n insecure or inadequate places in 75.4% of households, non-prescription self-medication was a common practice in 46 (47 4%) households, and lack of identification and security of medications stored was observed in 60 (53.6%) households. Most households had stock of medicines, which were done improperly or unsecure, or have specialties with lack of identification and security, which can lead to poisoning or e ineffective therapy. The Pharmaceutical Assistance under SUS lacks social initiatives, with actions directed for medications users, which can be supplied by the presence of the pharmacist in the ESF, essential for the promotion of racional use of medicines, that, through the Pharmaceutical Care, can identify, correct and prevent possible problems related to drugs.