Hemşirelik Öğrencilerinin Ağrı Yönetiminde Kendi Kendine Analjezik Kullanma Durumları

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the status of nursing students regarding self-medication with analgesics for pain management. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in the nursing department of a university in Turkey between May 12th-27th 2016. For the data collection, a form was used that included questions about the individual characteristics of the students as well as the status of self-medication with analgesics. Descriptive analysis, chi-square test and independent samples t-test were used for data analyzing. Statistically significant differences were expressed at the 95 percent level of confidence (p < .05). Results: Among 398 nursing students, 199 of them (50%) reported using analgesics for pain management during the last 30 days and self-medication with analgesics rate among students was 61.8% (n = 123). The main reason for self-medication was a previous analgesic experience. Conclusion: This study showed a critically high rate of self-medication with analgesics without a prescription among nursing students. There is a need to raise awareness of nursing students about the disadvantages of selfmedication to provide safe analgesic use.

The relationship of depressive symptoms with pain and analgesic use in Turkish adolescents

“…Previous studies involving Turkish adolescents reported self‐medication frequencies ranging from 61.8% to 81.6%. It was stated that the most frequently used drug group for self‐medication were analgesics, and that the reason for using it was headache (Gursul et al, 2021; Ünver et al, 2020).…”