Investigação acerca de esclarecimentos prestados no ata da dispensação de contraceptivos hormonais para animais domésticos em estabelecimentos da cidade de Areia-PB

Abstract

There is a significant increase in the number of companion animals in homes and on the streets. There is a problem about the population control of these animals, especially the wanderers, who inhabit urban and rural areas, free and without owner, suffering from lack of care and often becoming a public health problem. For these reasons, many tutors seeking to interrupt the reproductive cycle end up resorting to hormonal contraceptives as a short-term measure of population control, in order to avoid unwanted crosses and pregnancy, since they are easily marketed at low cost. The lack of prior knowledge about drugs and the lack of access to veterinary medical care for these domiciled animals, usually in poorer families, induces the population to seek solutions to the most diverse problems in veterinary stores and pharmacies, so it is expected that there will be a lack of knowledge of the risks of using some medications. The objective of this research was to evaluate whether, in the act of dispensing hormonal contraceptives, clarification occurs about such drugs in the city of Areia-PB, Brazil. As well as to identify the trade name of these drugs most used and the knowledge of the population about the risks of these medications. Fifty face-to-face questionnaires were applied manually, at the Veterinary Hospital of Campus II-UFPB and on the city streets with randomly chosen residents of the city of Areia - PB, from March to April 2022. part of the interviewees know the risks of using hormonal contraceptives, they report that they are not informed at the time of dispensing and some of the interviewees say that the administration is done on the spot, most often by clerks. The results confirm the need for further clarification to the population and awareness of the population about preventive, effective and safe methods of population control of domestic animals.