Propuesta educativa digital automedicacion administrativo y docente CEAD Acacias
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2020-08-20Author
Mejia Arenas, Luisa Fernanda
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Zapata Feria, jhonCitación
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Self-medication is understood as the consumption of medications without
medical prescription, a controversial practice, since it generates in society the use
irrational and indiscriminate use, becoming a serious public health problem. The
(WHO) has generated alerts about the increase in resistance to antibiotics, which generates
ineffectiveness in treatments for infectious diseases, increased morbidity and mortality
and a considerable increase in public health spending. In this regard it is convenient
say that the most common causes associated with self-medication are the lack of education
science and health, and the attacks on the advertising campaigns of the pharmaceutical industry,
that promote easy access to medicines and therefore a high prevalence of
self medication. Consequently, an investigation was carried out whose fundamental purpose
was demonstrating that the design of digital educational strategies on knowledge and
risks and benefits of medicines promotes health education and the use
appropriate and rational of the same, under an experimental design with a focus
however, of a correlational scope, with a case study design in which
58 teachers and administrators from CEAD Acacías of the National University participated
open and remote A survey-type instrument was used in order to determine the
prevalence of self-medication, as well as its determinants and triggering factors.
The results show that there is a high prevalence of self-medication, in addition to
of a high consequence between the lack of health education, the ignorance of the
risks and benefits of drugs and the prevalence of self-medication. It concludes
So, digital educational strategies facilitate health education and decision-making.
intelligent and informed decisions in determinations related to ...
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