O uso abusivo de antidepressivos e ansiolíticos na comunidade da Zona Rural I de Itajubá-MG

Abstract

There has been the abuse of antidepressants and anxiolytics in the population of the Rural Zone I of Itajubá - MG, comprising 385 psychiatric patients from a total of 3100 users of the Estratégia Saúde da Família. Among the main causes of abuse are: population comprised of seniors, poor sanitation and infrastructure, poverty, away from the urban area, lack of family planning, among others. The literature review conducted by database SciELO, Psychiatry On Line Brasil through the keywords : antidepressants , anxiolytics , countryside, ESF , abuse , mental health, psychiatric drugs, showed that the abuse of psychiatric drugs is influenced by both the patient who is requesting increasingly medications sense of well being and also psychiatrization of social life, where any affective symptoms have become reason for prescription drugs showing a lack of the medical professional preparation. Was developed plans of interventions to reduce the number of psychiatric patients and the overuse of antidepressants and anxiolytics, projects are: Renascer - group lectures and activities on mental health, MoveMente - with encouragement to exercise, Prevent - lecture family planning.