Perception about self-medication practices for oral health problems among the general population of Davangere city, Karnataka, India

Giriraju, Anjan

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“…Majority of the study participants were middle-aged (41-50 years) and had practice of self-medication. This finding is in accordance with the study conducted by Shankar et al 20 and Ritu et al 21 Majority of the participants were male (56.8%) because of availability/presence of them at the time of study which was similar to the studies done by Alghanim, 22 Ahmad et al, 23 Giriraju, 19 Ritu et al, 21 Eticha et al, 24 Komalraj et al, 25 Wijesinghe et al, 26 Shankar et al, 20 and Jain et al, 27 while other studies Katkuri et al 28 and…”

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confidence: 82%

“…19 Antibiotics (35.5%) were used as a common type of self-medication among the study subjects. Similar results were found in Eticha et al, 24 but this result was not in accordance with the studies conducted by Jain et al, 27 Uppal et al, 30 Shankar et al, 20 Komalraj et al, 25 Giriraju,19 and Ritu et al 21 where analgesics were used as a common type of self-medication. The most common sources of medication or sources of drug supply for self-medication was pharmacy shop (52.3%).…”

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confidence: 71%

“…Similar studies done by Giriraju 19 and Komalraj et al, 25 but when we compared it to other studies done by Katkuri et al, 28 Eticha et al, 24 Ritu et al, 21 Bashir et al, 29 and Uppal et al, 30 gave opposite results. …”

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“…19 Our results showed that self-medication was used till the condition subsided but this was not in accordance with the studies done by Giriraju 19 and Komalraj et al 25 In our survey, majority of the participants (60.9%) were not aware of side effects of self-medication because of lack of knowledge. This was in accordance with the study done by Katkuri et al 28 In this study, the expiry date on the medicine was checked by lesser number of participants (49.1%) before using it for self-medication, but this was not in accordance with the study conducted by Uppal et al, 30 but similar result was found in the study done by Katkuri et al 28 The main reason for taking self-medication among study population was minor illness (66.4%) in the current study but when other studies were compared, then this study was in accordance with the studies conducted by Komalraj et al, 25 Alghanim, 22 Giriraju, 19 and Jain et al 27 These results were in contradiction to the other studies done by Eticha et al 24 and Katkuri et al 28 In this study, maximum number of respondents felt that self-medication gave temporary pain relief. This result was in accordance with the studies conducted by Komalraj et al 25 and Giriraju.…”

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confidence: 47%

“…The modified questionnaire was based on Giriraju,19 questionnaire to measure self-medication practices for oral health problems. Questionnaire was closed-ended questions.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Self-medication for oral health problems among adults attending the University Dental Hospital, Sharjah

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Ghiasi

Zahiri

et al. 2019

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Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the self-medication practices for oral health problems among adults attending the University Dental Hospital Sharjah (UDHS). The reasons for visits and types, durations, and sources of self-medication were recorded. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted among adult patients attending UDHS. A total of 566 participants were recruited using pre-determined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data collection was performed using a self-administered closed-ended questionnaire, and information was analysed using SPSS software version 22. Results Four hundred of 566 (70.7%) respondents indicated that they practice self-medication. Among those who practiced self-medication for oral health problems, the mean age was 26 ± 9.4 years (52% men and 48% women), and the majority (46%) had obtained higher education, although their profession was not related to the medical field (69.97%). The most common factor that triggered self-medication practices was toothache (56.5%), while the main reasons for self-medication were both lack of time to visit a dental clinic (37.6%) and the perception that dental ailments were not serious health issues (36.8%). Analgesics were the main medicines used for self-medication. Conclusion Self-medication for oral health problems is a common practice in UAE. Lack of time to visit dental clinics and the perceived low importance of oral health problems were the main reasons for self-medication. Analgesics for toothache were the most frequent medications purchased from the local pharmacy.

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Prevalence of Self-medication Practice among People Attending Oral Health Outreach Programmes in Madurai East, Tamil Nadu

Subhashini¹,

Garla²,

Karuppaiah³

et al. 2017

Journal of Advanced Oral Research

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Aims and Objectives: The practice of self-medication may lead to lack of clinical evaluation by a trained medical professional and delay in effective therapy. This study was aimed to find the prevalence of self-medication and identify the common causes of illness/symptoms that necessitate self-medication awareness and develop perception regarding methods to prevent the growing trend of self-medication and associated factors among population those who visit a community outreach programme in Madurai, India. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey in which a semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data. A total of 238 participants were included in the study with respect to the final sample size. Data were analysed using SPSS software with a significance level of 0.05, and statistical relationship between the variables was analysed using chi-square test. Results: The prevalence of self-medication is 69.32 per cent. Headache (59.6%), fever (60%), cough (51%) and toothache (25%) were the most common symptoms for self-medication. The most commonly used drugs/substances were analgesics (65.54%), warm saline (38.23%) and hot drinks (27.73%). The most common reason for resorting to self-medication practice was previous experience of successfully treating a similar illness. The majority of the participants (56.97%) were in their third-fourth decade of life. The association of self-medication with characteristics such as male gender, urban locality, and upper-and lower-middle class was statistically significant at a p-value of 0.005. Conclusion: Self-medication practices were quite high in this study, and these practices were also prevalent among the educated people. The physicians and health professionals have to spend some extra time in educating patients regarding the same. Improved knowledge and understanding about self-medication may result in rationale use and thus limit emerging microbial antibiotic resistance issues.

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Perception about self-medication practices for oral health problems among the general population of Davangere city, Karnataka, India

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Perception about Self-medication Practices for Oral Health Problems among Patients attending Dental Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Perception about Self-medication Practices for Oral Health Problems among Patients attending Dental Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Self-medication for oral health problems among adults attending the University Dental Hospital, Sharjah

Prevalence of Self-medication Practice among People Attending Oral Health Outreach Programmes in Madurai East, Tamil Nadu

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