Automedicação com anti-hipertensivos por portadores de hipertensão arterial sistêmica usuários de um hospital universitário e da saúde suplementar

Abstract

Background: Self- medication is a public health problem, this practice individuals to the risk of adverse events, iatrogenic and aggravation of diseases, especially when red or black stripe medicines are used. Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of self-medication with antihypertensive drugs in patients with Hypertension users from a University Hospital and Supplementary Health. Methods: Observational, transversal study was conducted and analytical, with data collet ed prospectively, involving larger18 years hypertensive patients met at the University hospital of Sergipe and additional hospitals, in Aracaju. Interviews were made between june 2017 and December 2018. Results: The prevalence of self-medication among 331 patients investigated was 77,1%. Of the patients who self-medicate 72,9% are symptomatic (p=0,006) and the presence of comorbidities (p=0,018), mainly the Dyslipidemia (p=0,003) was more related to hypertensive patients that not practiced self-medication. Users of the University Hospital had less self-medication antihypertensive index to the detriment of patients from additional sector (63,7% x 91,9%) p < 0,0001. Conclusion: Self-medication with antihypertensive drugs showed high prevalence in the population studied, which corrborates the perspective that patients with chronic disease, such as hypertension, are a public vulnerable to this practice