Desarrollo de un plan de intervención farmacéutica sobre uso racional de medicamentos en pacientes pediátricos dirigido a las madres del programa Creciendo con Nuestros Hijos (CNH) Riobamba La Paz 2013.

Abstract

This dissertation work had as aim to develop and evaluate a pharmaceutical intervention on the Rational Use of Pediatric Medicines aimed at the mothers of the Program Growing With Our Children (GOCH) Riobamba La Paz 2013. The research was of applied type, explanatory level, design pre experimental, which included a pre and post test to the same population. It was developed in four stages, diagnosis of knowledge, elaboration of the pharmaceutical intervention, application of the pharmaceutical intervention and evaluation of the pharmaceutical intervention. The initial diagnosis the most common errors were identified which are present in the medication administration in pediatric patients such as: the 85% of mothers self-medicate children, the 68% of mothers self-medicate children with any symptom of influenza, the 52% of mothers self-medicate analgesics, the 72% of mothers forget to administer at the right hour the medicines, the 48% of mothers do not follow the medical indication correctly, the 75% of mothers suspend treatment when the child improves. For the development of the educational intervention, direct methods were used such as lectures, workshops, triptychs and indirect methods such as videos, slides, social networks, finally in the evaluation was obtained as a result that before the pharmaceutical intervention a 68% had a scarce knowledge, 24% reasonable and 8% adequate, while after the intervention the results changed markedly being 0% scarce, 8% reasonable and 92% adequate, it was demonstrated that the intervention carried out by the pharmaceutical biochemist had a positive impact on the knowledge of the rational use of pediatric medicines in the study population. It is suggested to initiate health campaigns by students of Biochemistry and Pharmacy in populations with lack of knowledge, in order to train people on the rational use of medicines, using instruments such as: flipchart, triptychs, videos, Slides, etc.