Uso de pictogramas para melhorar a adesão medicamentosa em uma Unidade Básica de Saúde de Maceió-AL

Abstract

This project started with a general objective to improve the health education of the population covered by the academic basic care facility Professor Gilberto de Macedo in Maceió, the state capital of Alagoas. Taking in consideration that Alagoas has the lowest Human Development Index and the Highest Illiteracy in Brazil, these indexes justify this intervention with the use of pictograms as a complementary health education tool to the population served. The operationalization of this objective is two-pronged: create a pictogram database to be use in the facility and present a questionnaire to validate the understanding of the selected pictograms, all selected from public databases. The pictograms in the database were categorized in three major groups: Posology, Attention care and Side effects. Each pictogram selected for this is described, commented, and presented. This project is based on successful cases published where the health understanding was improved with the use of pictograms in Portugal, South Africa and Brazil.