Estudo Comparativo Da Automedicação Utilizada Por Estudantes Dos Cursos Das Áreas De Ciências Da Saúde, Humanas, Exatas E Social Da Universidade Do Planalto Catarinense – Uniplac

Abstract

The aim of this work was to research and analyze questions related to the habit of self-medication among students from Medicine, Engineering, Pedagogy and Law from UNIPLAC. It was verified the prevalent drugs used as selfmedication and if the self-medication was due to the level of stress that the undergraduate course may cause. Also, if students justify the self-medication by the need of help for a good performance in the studies. The study was observational, transversal and descriptive with the participation of 121 students. The instrument to collect data was a closed questionnaire. Most of the participants was females, presenting an age around 28 years old, with familiar income above four minimum salaries. 71% of these students considered their undergraduate course is stressing, being Medicine the most stressing and Law the least one. With respect to the self-medication, from the four undergraduate courses analyzed, Law and Engineering showed the same perceptual of 39% of self-medication while Medicine shows 40% and Pedagogy 63,6%. Vitamins were the most cited medicine used, followed by the anxiolytics and anti-depressives.

Nursing students: medication use, psychoactive substances and health conditions

“…National studies have assessed non-prescription self-medication and non-abusive use in undergraduate students (23,35) . However, the results available for the most part are not specific to nursing students.…”

“…Considering the ease of access to psychoactive substances among undergraduate students, the prevalence of abuse and the potential health risks, the need to investigate these variables in different populations and regions is imminent. The prevalence of psychoactive medication use without prescription in undergraduate students has been recurrently assessed in the scientific context (3,(22)(23) . However, few studies address the problem in nursing students by assessing the relationship with health behaviors and psychoactive substance use.…”

Automedicação No Tratamento De Sintomas De Manifestação De Estresse Por Discentes De Uma Instituição Federal De Ensino Superior No Estado Do Ceará

“…Em decorrência dessas manifestações, outras doenças têm caminho aberto para se manifestarem; doenças essas que têm por base manifestações de estresse. Em um estudo de Souza e colaboradores 13 , 2015, foi pontuado que alunos em condições de estresse buscavam alívio de dores e outros sintomas através da prática da automedicação. Os autores pontuaram que a relação entre a automedicação e as manifestações de estresse causadas pelo curso foi, em determinadas situações, confirmada pelos alunos que participaram do estudo 13 .…”