Abstract:Background: Self-medication is the use of drugs and painkillers by many people with therapeutic or preventive intent without prior professional advice or prescribed by a physician, including adults to treat their selfrecognized diseases and symptoms.Objectives: Determine the rate of self-medication practice among university students and determine the most common area to be selfmedicated and the most common drug group for self-medication.Subjects and Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study of a random samp… Show more
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