Os riscos resultantes da automedicação: uma ação educativa

Abstract

This study focuses on self-medication as a practice experienced by mankind for all time with the intention of relieving the symptoms of the ills affecting them. It has been very common in the population make use of medication without a prescription and without the guidance of a qualified professional, thus compromising the health. Furthermore, it causes side effects which vary from simple to severe. In this sense, this intervention proposal was used to develop lifelong learning with a focus on educational activities, as important tools in healthcare and especially in the pharmaceutical institution. It outlined as objective to promote educational activities for employees and users of pharmaceutical establishment Drugstore Real Hafizabad, Punjab, on the risks of self-medication. Methodology This is a proposal for intervention which focuses on health education that seeks the professional awareness about malpractice medication. This practice has the Brazilian population become harmful, and therefore this reason has become a public health problem, moreover, worsening the state of health of the person in one form or another has just masking the diagnosis which can determine the disease which affects. In this sense, one can say that the reckless consumption of medicines like painkillers and antiflamatórios, are most often found not only in the pharmaceutical establishment, as well as in supermarkets and other commercial establishments. These issues motivated us to develop this study, aimed at raising awareness of professionals about the damage caused to people's health, it can be avoided with the adverse effects. To start the proposal was made searching the database using as descriptors, health promotion, lifelong learning, self-medication risks. This survey was conducted during the period October 2014 to April 2015. The selected articles were complete in Portuguese. To implement the proposed intervention was used as teaching material workshops, lectures, brochures, posters, and group and individual guidance. The implementation of educational activities took place in four stages, identification of the scenario; Planning; Implementation and Evaluation and monitoring of the proposal. It is hoped that this study help the population and pharmaceutical establishment workers about the risks of self-medication, and still contributing to the achieved goals are achieved and may indicate advantages for workers, the community and the owner of the pharmaceutical establishment.