Basic network displacement and lack of knowledge users in Southeast Bahia
International Journal of Development Research
Basic network displacement and lack of knowledge users in Southeast Bahia
Received 17th September, 2019; Received in revised form 11th October, 2019; Accepted 14th November, 2019; Published online 30th December, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Marla Vieira Nascimento et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Pharmaceutical Care (PA) is a strong determinant for health care resolution, being an important indicator of the quality of care providedBut although it is a fundamental part of this assistance, it has rarely been considered as such and contemplated with initiatives to strengthen its management.This research aimed to evaluate users' knowledge about prescription and dispensation of medicines in the USF of a municipality in southwestern Bahia.Research with a descriptive, quantitative and exploratory cross-sectional approach conducted in the municipality of Tremedal (BA).Data collection was performed through structured interviews in the form of a questionnaire, prepared according to the needs of the study by the authors of the research. Interviews were conducted from January to June 2019 with patients seen atUSF, CAPS and the specialty health center. All participants signed the consent form regarding the research.The questionnaire sought information regarding sociodemographic data such as gender, education, skin color and income, as well as information on consultation time and medications used and assessment of patient knowledge regarding medical prescription, pathology and pharmacotherapeutic treatment.Regarding prescriptions, most contained only one prescription drug (58 - 44.62%), the presence of polypharmacy was identified in eight (6.15%) and antibiotics in seven (5.38%) prescriptions. It was also observed that from the total, 42 (32.31%) prescriptions were completely met by the pharmacies of the health units of the municipality.Drug shortage in the municipal basic network is a public health problem and one of the factors that make pharmacotherapy and the care process more difficult for users. Although the data presented here do not show the intensity of the health damage to the population assisted by the studied municipal network, they show that Pharmaceutical Assistance should better structure its actions, prioritizing the monitoring of the supply of essential medicines in primary care units so that scenarios such as: the studied does not become common.
