Fitoterapia e plantas medicinais em unidades básicas de saúde no município de Itabaiana – Sergipe: a visão dos profissionais de saúde

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Renata Rodrigues da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/17634
• topic: Fitoterapia; Profissionais de Saúde; Plantas medicinais; Medicinal plants; Phytotherapy; Health professionals; OUTROS::CIENCIAS

This study verified the use of medicinal plants and herbal medicines by doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, Community Health Workers (CHW) who work in primary health care in Itabaiana/SE. This is a descriptive and exploratory study with a quantitativequalitative approach in which the data collection instrument was a questionnaire via google form, the variables were age, sex, education level and profession. The collected data were submitted to descriptive statistical analysis, percentage analysis using Microsoft Excel 2013® and also to Bardin's content analysis. A total of 37 professionals answered the questionnaire, (49% or 18) of the participants stated that they had no contact with the herbal theme during graduation and (41% or 15) answered that they do not know how to differentiate medicinal plants from herbal medicines, however, (94 % or 35) of the total sample of this study showed interest in implementing projects that encourage the use of medicinal plants and herbal medicines in the municipality. It is concluded that there was a lack of subjects and content related to the theme during the academic training of these professionals.