COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE SELF-MEDICATION USED BY STUDENTS FROM THE AREAS OF HEALTH HUMAN, EXACT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FROM UNIVERSIDADE DO PLANALTO CATARINENSE – UNIPLAC

Abstract

The objective of the work was to  research  and analyze questions related to the habit of self-medication among students from Medicine, Civil Engineering, Pedagogy and Law from UNIPLAC. The study  verified the prevalence of the classes of pharmacies used as self-medication and,  this kind of practice due to the level of stress that the course may cause,  as a justification for  the consume of these remedies  as auxiliaries for a good performance in the studies. It was characterized  as an observational, transversal and  descriptive study with the participation of 121 students. The instrument to collect  data was a closed questionnaire. The project was approved by the Committee of Ethics in Research with Human beings (CEP) from UNIPLAC. It was adopted the Statistic Program SPSS 13.0 to accomplish  the quantitative analysis and, the calculus  of the variables was accomplished by  making use of the descriptive statistics, by means of  the distribution of frequencies and the test of the qui-quadrate to verify the differences in the proportions, with a level of significance p<0,05 .Most of the participants was females, presenting an age media of 28 years old,  familiar income above 4 minimum salaries. 71% of these students consider their course stressing, being Medicine the most stressing and Law the least one. With respect to the self-medication, from the four courses analyzed, Law and Civil Engineering  showed the same perceptual of 39%, Medicine 40% and Pedagogy 63,6%. The class of vitamins were the class  of medicine more used,  followed  by the tranquillizers  ant-depressives.