Acompanhamento farmacoterapêutico visando à uma melhor qualidade de vida em portadores de transtornos psicossociais

Abstract

Millions of people suffer from neurological or psychosocial problems. Studies show that the performance of the pharmacist upon health teams provides numerous benefits. However, little is known on pharmaceutical care within the Mental Health as well as the clinical and economic interventions on the life of the person with a psychosocial disorder. This study aimed at conducting a pharmacotherapeutic monitoring with users of the Center for Psychosocial Care II on the Eastern part of Teresina-Piauí, analyzing their health status and performing pharmaceutical interventions in order to reduce the problems associated with their drug therapy. The study was conducted by pharmaceutical consultations with users from October 2012 to August 2013. To start pharmacotherapeutic monitoring, we selected two users from the Center, who signed a free informed consent form. We analyzed their treatments, medications, diseases, and as Negative Outcomes associated with Medication (NOMs) and Drugs Related Problems (DRPs) emerged, pharmaceutical interventions to alleviate these problems were adopted. The Artigo Original Marques LXF, pharmacotherapeutic monitoring identified four DRPs / NOMs: untreated health problems, not necessary drug effect, quantitative ineffectiveness and non-quantitative uncertainty due to the appearance of Adverse Reactions to Drugs (ADRs). Taking into consideration the effects of the pharmacist’s intervention in the treatment of patients (the reduction of problems related to drug therapy, the evolution of the users' health and the promotion of rational use of medicines), the importance of the pharmacist in the context of pharmaceutical care is evident.