A Survey Study on Use of Over-the-Counter (Otc) Drugs Among Medical Students of a Tertiary Care Centre, B. G. Nagar

Abstract

BACKGROUND Over-the-counter drugs (OTC) or non-prescriptive drugs are the drugs that are purchased without a prescription. Medical professionals have a common tendency to practice self-medication when they feel sick themselves. Self-medication practice in medical professionals gets incorporated right from their undergraduate days. As medical students are the future medical practitioners, it assumes a specific significance among them. AIMS & OBJECTIVES To analyze the use of over-the-counter drugs among medical students, to determine the type of OTC drugs commonly used and to determine the various factors responsible for the usage of OTC drugs. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted among 2 nd year medical students of AIMS, B. G. Nagar.

A Comparative Study on the Knowledge and Usage Assessment of the Over the Counter Medications among Students from Tikrit University

“…In developing countries, the usage of OTC medications has been introduced into practice for several reasons for example there are no rules on purchasing and selling of medications, people feel familiar to selfmedicate the conditions based on their previous experiences, negligence, and poverty to some extent. (12) Also the results of this study revealed that the use of OTC medicines was high among medical colleges' students as compared with those students of scientific and literary colleges.…”