Avaliação da utilização de antidepressivos por usuários da Farmácia Municipal de Santa Cruz do Sul - RS.

Abstract

Depression is a prevalent psychopathology in the world population, which has a strong impact on their quality of life. The drug treatment for the disease is the use of antidepressants, which through its mechanism of investigation seeks to reverse the depressive picture. Although there is a specific argument for its cause, then it suggests several factors that contribute to its progress, such as somatic, genetic, psychological and biological. The present study aimed to characterize the sociodemographic, behavioral, health and pharmacotherapeutic profile of antidepressant users of the Municipal Pharmacy of Santa Cruz do Sul - RS, as well as a class of antidepressant medication most used. This is a cross-sectional study in which an interview was conducted with 85 antidepressant patients who accepted to participate in the study. It was observed that the majority of the interviewees were female (83.5%), in the age group of 60 years or more (48.2%), married, and 64.7% of the use of fluoxetine, a selective reuptake of serotonin. The medical specialty that prescribes this class of medications is the general practitioner (91.8%) because they had more access to these professionals in primary care. World Health Health Date 2018, by 2020, depression incapacitates thousands of people in the world. According to Melo et al (2018), depression is a third cause of withdrawal from work in Brazil, leading to an expenditure of almost 200 million reais by INSS in benefits. The indiscriminate use of antidepressants has become a strong reality in the country, causing tolerance, effort and other reactions, leaving the visible perspective of pharmaceutical intervention (Silva and Viana, 2015). In dispensing the dispensation, it is the same present on the pharmaceutical risk, in the early aid. The pharmacist is required for the use of medications, on the correct use of psychotropic medicines, complying with the prescribed pharmacotherapy, without changing the foods and medicines. Communication at the time of dispensation becomes indispensable in the chain of health care, so that it can be able to identify, shorten and that future risks associated with a pharmacotherapy.