Assessment of the practice of self-medication by academics of a Nursing School in the south of Minas Gerais - Brazil: Avaliação da prática da automedicação por acadêmicos de uma Faculdade de Enfermagem do sul de Minas Gerais - Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Fabiano Marcos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Ruan Pablo Ramos de, Thomazine, Gustavo Rodrigo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Applied Science Review
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.brazilianjournals.com.br/ojs/index.php/BASR/article/view/54340
• topic: self-medication; academics; nursing

  Considered to be one of the problems to public health, the practice of self-medication and drug intoxications are occurrences that classify a large percentage in Brazil. The present study describes the index of self-medication for analgesics and anti-inflammatories among a number of students in the 1st and 7th years of the nursing course of Wenceslaus Braz Nursing School, Itajubá-MG. A field survey was conducted in which a questionnaire containing 17 (seventeen) questions related to self-medication was provided. The research aimed to demonstrate and affirm through the data that were obtained that nursing students, a course that covers total knowledge about benefits and risks caused by medicines, stand out in the practice of self-medication. This practice of self-medication by nursing and nursing professionals results from self-confidence, which originates from their training.