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- Title
A AUTOMEDICAÇO EM CRIANAS POR SEUS RESPONSµVEIS EM UM HOSPITAL DO INTERIOR DE MINAS GERAIS.
- Authors
J£nior, Assis do Carmo Pereira; Filho, Paulo Celso Prado Telles; de Meira, Fabiana Rocha
- Abstract
Undertaken in a hospital in a county in the interior of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, this descriptive study identified and analysed the medications, knowledge, motives and justifications of parents/guardians in relation to therapeutic drugs self-administered to the children in the period prior to hospitalization in a pediatric unit. Fifty parents or guardians of children aged from 0 to 5 years took part in the study over one month. The study highlighted the self-administration of dipyrone and paracetamol, the participants' knowledge (incorrect; 27 people (54%), partially correct; 14 people (28%) and correct; 9 people (18%); 13 people (26%) defended their actions by stating that they were accustomed to administering the medications. It is necessary to use strategies to modify this scenario, in order to increase the children's safety.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CAREGIVERS; CHILDREN'S hospitals; DRUGS; INCOME; RESEARCH methodology; MOTIVATION (Psychology); PARENTING; PARENTS; PATIENT education; PATIENT safety; PEDIATRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF medication; PARENT attitudes; HEALTH literacy; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Cogitare Enfermagem, 2011, Vol 16, Issue 4, p708
- ISSN
1414-8536
- Publication type
Article