%0 Journal Article
%T Preval¨ºncia da automedica£¿£¿o na popula£¿£¿o estudantil do Instituto Polit¨¦cnico de Bragan£¿a
%A Ribeiro
%A Maria Isabel
%A Oliveira
%A Alexandrina
%A Silva
%A Hugo
%A Mendes
%A M¨¢rcia
%A Almeida
%A Marta
%A Silva
%A Tania
%J Revista Portuguesa de Sa¨²de P¨²blica
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X the self-medication is a normal practice today, defined as a common form of self-health care, consisting in the consumption of a product without a medical prescription. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the self-medication level in the bragan£¿a polytechnic institute students£¿ population. a cross-sectional survey was carried out in a probabilistic sample including 225 individuals, from a total population of 4168 students, during november 2008. the data collected were treated with the statistical software spss 16.0 (statistical package for social sciences). the level of self-medication was 90,7% and, of these, only 57,4% have the knowledge about the adverse effects. the main reason which led to self-medication was pain, mostly headache, fever, dizziness and sleep, and the drugs generally used were paracetamol (ben-u-ron) and ibuprofeno (brufen).
%K self-medication
%K drug utilization
%K public higher education
%K students.
%U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0870-90252010000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en