PERCEPTION OF CHRONICLY ILL ADULTS ABOUT PHARMACEUTICAL CARE

Abstract

Chronic diseases affect millions of people around the world, especially individuals over 50 years of age, making them significant consumers of medicines to combat and control comorbidities, when compared to other age groups. The large number of medication prescriptions increases the number of negative situations, culminating mainly in excess and inappropriate use of medications. Most of these negative situations occur due to the lack of pharmaceutical monitoring during pharmacotherapy. For the development of the present study, information was collected through questionnaires answered by people over 50 years old in the municipality of Itacoatiara -Amazonas. This study obtained results in which they confirmed that 91.7% of respondents have a chronic disease, with 91.1% having Systemic Arterial Hypertension (SAH), and 26.7% having Diabetes Mellitus, with people suffering from both comorbidities or more. Regarding smoking and consumption of alcoholic beverages, 50% of respondents reported that they are no longer smokers, and 33.3% of respondents stated that they no longer consume alcoholic beverages, respectively, due to the use of medications to control chronic disease. . Furthermore, this research obtained data in which approximately 33.3% of chronically ill respondents practice self-medication, which refers to the act of taking medication on their own, without guidance, and the equivalent of 75% of respondents have never received pharmaceutical monitoring, further reinforcing the need for the practice of pharmaceutical care.