CONHECIMENTO DOS ESTUDANTES DE ENFERMAGEM E ENFERMEIROS FRENTE AO USUÁRIO DE DROGAS

Abstract

Chemical dependence is a chronic disease within the group of mental and behavioral disorders due to the use anel abuse of psychoactive substances. The data show that just over 5% of the world's popularion between 15 and 64 years of age usecl illicit drugs in 2013. There were 200,000 clrug-related deaths in 2012. ln this way, it is fundamental that nurses have the knowledge to develop drug strategies. Prevention, diagnosis and care of the dependent and thus offer a quality anel efficient treatment. This srudy aims to evaluate the knowledge of nurses anel nursing students acquired in undergraduare courses. Methodology: This rs an integrative literature review. The data collection was clone through the LlLACS - Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences, VHLS, UNIAD, VNODC, books, journals and health books databases and incluclecl studies related to the dependence of published drugs ln any season. To search for data, the following descriptors were used: nursing, psychoactive substances dependence and knowledge and its English version nursing, psychoactive substance Depcndence and knowledge. The arricles that were presented in duplicate were not considered in the descriptive presentation of the data. The articles were then analyzed in terrns of content, and ]ater classified in three categories: nursing student perception of drug dependence, nurse's perception (teacher or not) about drug addiction and their role in conducting studies that cleal with drug dependence. Theme and a category denominated of orhers, where they were allocated the articles rhat did not fit in the other categories. ln view of rhe adopred cri teria, 103 ( 100%) publications were selected. Of these, 31 (30.09%) articles were duplicated, and 9 (8. 73%) publications were excluded, being 6 dissertations and 3 article because it was not related to the objective of the stucly, remaining 63 articles that were analyzed. Of these, 9 ( 14.28%) articles were found exclusively through the use of descriptors in Portuguese anel 25 (39.68<Yo) articles exclusively through the use of descriptors in English and 29 articles (46.04%) in both Search strategies. Of the 63 articles analyzed, 30 (47.62%) were allocated in the category: nursing student perceptions of drug addiction, 23 (36.51 %) were allocated in the category: nurse perception (teacher or not) on dependence and Their performance in conducting studies that approach the theme and 1 O ( 15.87%) articlcs werc allocated in thc catcgory: others. Although thcre is a shortage of publications addrcssing nurscs' knowledgc about drug dependence, most of the studies were focused on assessing the nursing student's knowledge on the subject, which in this review has shown great dcficiency.