title: [Self-medication and health academic staff].
abstract: As self-medication is a worldwide problem of public health, this article had as objective to evaluate the behavior of the future health professionals with regard to the drug utilization, particularly, to the self-medication practice. 223 academic students from a public university in Recife City were interviewed, selected by proportional share in each course. A questionnaire on the drug utilization was applied, 15 days before the interview. From the 223 students, 65.5% reported drug use in the last 15 days. 42.3% used drugs through the physician's prescription and 57.7% through the self-medication. The most used drugs were the analgesics (24.0%) and vitamins (18.9%) and the main reason was pain (30.5%). The drug utilization among academic students in Recife City is high but it is inside the parameter according to others analysis. However we have expected a low and more rationalized utilization.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Farmácia, Faculdades Integradas da Vitória de Santo Antão, Recife, PE, 50610-000. aquino.daniela@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Daniela Silva
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: de Aquino
authors.forename: José Augusto Cabral
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: de Barros
authors.forename: Maria Dolores Paes
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: da Silva
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006281:Health Occupations; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012651:Self Medication / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013334:Students; D055815:Young Adult