Conhecimento dos pacientes sobre os medicamentos prescritos após consulta médica e dispensação

Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

Diony Oenning¹  Bruna Volpato De Oliveira¹  Carine Raquel Blatt¹ 

关键词: Drugs;    Drug utilization studies;    Awareness;    Rational use of drugs;    Medicamentos;    Estudos de utilização de medicamentos;    Conhecimento;    Uso racional de medicamentos;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1413-81232011000800027

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Information provided to patients about medication is important for the success of the treatment, since the lack of such information is one of the main reasons why patients fail to take medicines as prescribed. The aim of this study was to verify patients' awareness about prescribed drugs distributed at the Grão Pará (Santa Catarina) primary healthcare unit after a medical appointment. One hundred and eleven patients were interviewed, seventy after a medical appointment and forty-one after drugs were distributed. Patient awareness was tested by asking questions about the name, usage, dosage, length of treatment, side effects, and precautions. After a medical appointment 28.5% of patients were classified as having a good level of awareness, 17.1% fair and 64.4% insufficient. After drugs were distributed 4.9% of patients were classified as having a good level of awareness, 87.8% fair and 7.3% insufficient. The majority of those interviewed had a low level of awareness about the use of the prescribed drugs. Results after drugs were distributed were better in comparison to results after a medical appointment, suggesting the importance of the pharmacist in informing patients about the correct use of drugs.

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