Instrumento para evaluación del nivel de conocimiento de la prescripción en la atención primaria

• Autor(a) principal: Fröhlich, Samanta Etges
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Dal Pizzol, Tatiane da Silva, Mengue, Sotero Serrate
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rsp/article/view/32862
• topic: Pacientes; Conhecimentos; Atitudes e Prática em Saúde; Prescrições de Medicamentos; Atenção Primária à Saúde; Questionários; Pacientes; Conocimientos; Actitudes y Práctica en Salud; Prescripciones de Medicamentos; Atención Primaria de Salud; Cuestionario; Patients; Health Knowledge; Attitudes; Practice; Drug Prescriptions; Primary Health Care; Questionnaires

OBJECTIVE: To develop and test an instrument to evaluate patients' level of knowledge about drug prescription. METHODS: This study was conducted with users registered with the Family Health Strategy clinics of the city of Santa Cruz do Sul, Southern Brazil, selected by consecutive sampling. Name of the medication, therapeutic indication, drug dosage, times of administration, forms of use, duration of treatment, attitude when doses are missed, possible adverse effects and interactions were included in this study. Each item of the scale was weighted, according to the importance for safe prescribed drug use. The questionnaire was tested by applying an interview to users in 2006 and by analyzing 320 prescriptions. Descriptive statistics, prevalence ratios and chi-square test were calculated for categorical variables and the Tukey test was calculated to compare means. RESULTS: The level of knowledge about drug therapy was considered good in 11.3% of participants, fair in 42.5%, and insufficient in 46.3%. The highest levels of knowledge were observed in times of administration, therapeutic indication and duration of treatment. The lowest levels occurred in drug dosage, adverse effects and attitude when one or more drug doses are missed. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed instrument enabled the analysis of the magnitude of the gap existing between what the patients must know and what they actually know about their medications. Thus, key aspects of prevention, education and follow-up can be detected to avoid problems associated with unsafe drug use.