Perfil De Automedicação Entre Estudantes De Enfermagem

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze the self-medication profile among nursing students. Thus, a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out with nursing students from a university in the interior of Bahia. Questionnaires containing sociodemographic and other questions related to self-medication were used. The results showed that the majority of students are aged between 21 and 25 (33.10%) and female (84.40%), and that there is a very strong correlation between the knowledge acquired in the nursing course and the practice of selfmedication (r= 0.960, p=0.01). This practice is also related to the orientations given by students to other individuals (54.54%) and reading of the package insert (87.60%). It was also detected the greater use of analgesics by the students interviewed (63.63%), the presence of adverse drug reactions (55.20%) such as nausea and headache and the search for medical care (70.12%). This study therefore showed that selfmedication is a practice performed by nursing students and that, therefore, a greater number of educational practices in higher education institutions is required on the risk of selfmedication.