Propuesta educativa digital automedicacion administrativo y docente CEAD Acacias

Abstract

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 the use Appropriate medications in the teaching population.