Abstract

CASTILLO, Elizabeth  and  CISNEROS, Leinad. Prevention of narcotic addiction aimed at users who attend the trauma consultation of the Medical Center. Revista de Salud Vive [online]. 2020, vol.3, n.8, pp.95-103. ISSN 2664-3243.

Abstract Introduction: Nursing by fulfilling its teaching role promotes reflexive attitudes in patients to prevent addiction to narcotics. Objective Information for the prevention of narcotic addiction that have the patients who attend the trauma unit of the Medical Center. Materials and methods: Descriptive, field study, whose population was made up of 50 users, we worked with all, descriptive statistics were applied. The data were collected by means of a questionnaire with 13 Ítems with a Likert scale, validity under the judgment of experts and reliability by the Alpha test of Cronbach. Results: The results indícate that patients ingest pain relievers other than those prescribed by a doctor by 80%, increase the prescribed daily dose of narcotic pain relievers always by 50% of the population. As well as 80% stated the importance that nursing professionals provide trauma users with information on the prevention of addiction to narcotic pain relievers. Conclusions: The patients fulfill more than the dose of analgesics indicated by the doctors, in addition to combining them with other non-prescribed ones and do not recognize it as an addiction, so it is important the information that nursing professionals can provide in this regard

Keywords : narcotics; prevention; addiction; nursing.

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