Self-Medication Practices with Antibiotics and Antimalarials Among Sudanese Undergraduate University Students

Awad, Abdelmoneim; Eltayeb, I. B.

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“…In concordance to the results our study, students of health care professionals also reported a high prevalence non prescription drugs usage (Banerjee and Bhadury, 2012;Aditya and Rattan, 2013). The rate of use of antibiotics among the students of health care in different countries were found to be 43.2% in Nigeria (Ehigiator et al, 2013), 47.8% in Southern China (Pan et al, 2012), 79.5% in Sudan (Awad and Eltayeb, 2007) and 48% in Iran (Sarahroodi et al, 2010).…”

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“…Written informed consent was taken from all the students. The questionnaire was chosen from previous studies and modified according to the local needs (Awad and Eltayeb, 2007;Kumar et al, 2013). The questionnaire had questions related to demographic information of the participants, name of the antibiotics, indication for use, the information source about the antibiotic, their dose, reasons for self administration and idea about self medication etc.…”

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Self Medication with Antibiotics among Medical and Pharmacy Students in North India

Pal¹,

Murti²,

Gupta³

et al. 2016

American Medical Journal

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Self medication practices among the medical and paramedical professionals have been reported in many countries, however, very limited research was done exclusively on antibiotic in North India. This study was designed to assess the prevalence and pattern of antibiotic usage for self diagnosed diseases among the medical and pharmacy students. This was a questionnaire based cross sectional study conducted among medical and pharmacy students in North India. A total 326 students participated in the study and data of 316 students were eligible for analysis. 57.63% medical and 66.9% pharmacy students reported to use antibiotics in last one year. Fever was the predominant ailments for which medical (48.41%) and pharmacy (46.88%) students' self medicated. Most of the medical (74.6%) and pharmacy (61.9%) students had preferred amoxicillin for their ailments. The majority of medical students, 65.87% have self medicated because of their pharmacological knowledge in contrast to 62.1% pharmacy students. Adverse drug reaction experienced by 29.36% and 11.7% medical and pharmacy students respectively. Statistically no significant difference was observed in antibiotic usage between medical and pharmacy students (p = 0.08). To curb the growing trend of this unethical practices students of health care professional needs to be educated.

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Self Medication with Antibiotics among Medical and Pharmacy Students in North India

Pal¹,

Murti²,

Gupta³

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American Medical Journal

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“…This could be attributed to the mental state of the students as they think that they are aware of their symptoms and what are the diagnosis and the treatment and this behavior has risks, because wrong or inadequate information expose the subjects to potential health risks. 22 That most frequent side effects was nausea and vomiting 47 (9.3%) which could be due to the sensitivity of chemical component of the medications especially opioids, and also this is followed by decrease in appetite 22 (4.3%), drowsiness 16 (3.2%), and dizziness 13 (2.6%). These side effects depend on age, gender, dose, genetic differences and interaction with other drugs.…”

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Self-medication among medical student in King Abdul-Aziz University

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“…117 Many studies have been done to assess the prevalence and practices of self-medication. There has been variation in the measures of self-medication practices as depicted by survey questionnaires from various studies.…”

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A systematic review of the literature on survey questionnaires to assess self-medication practices

Limaye

Krause

et al. 2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Self-medication is of great public health importance as it often bypasses regulatory mechanisms to assure quality of health care. Nevertheless there are no established standards on how to assess self-medication. We therefore intended to systematically retrieve questionnaires and survey tools used to capture self-medication, with the aim to identify the scope of information investigated in this context and commonalities between the tools. We conducted a systematic review of the literature on questionnaires used for self-medication assessment by searching PubMed and Web of Science databases using the combinations of following keywords; self-medication, self-prescription, non-prescription, questionnaire. Truncation was used to ensure retrieval of all possible variations of search terms. The search was limited to articles published between 1st January 2000 and 31st December 2015, human studies and English language. Duplicate and irrelevant studies were excluded from the final review. A total of 158 studies were included in the review. Studies were from diverse geographical locations, most of the studies were from Nigeria 16 (10.1%) followed by India 10 (6.3%) and Iran 8 (5%). Forty-three studies (27.2%) focused on antibiotic self-medication. Majority of the studies (106; 67%) were done with adult populations. The components addressed by the questionnaires covered: reasons for self-medications in 147 (93%) studies, purchasing source in 136 (86%) studies, medical conditions to be treated in 153 (96.8%) studies, adverse events in 67 (42.4%) studies, use of prescribing information in 24 (15.1%) studies and antibiotic resistance awareness in 20 (46.5%) antibiotic studies. For 74 (46.8%) studies, survey questionnaires were self-administered and most studies (57; 36%) were done at homes of respondents. Thirty-seven (23.4%) studies did not report any recall period for self-medication practices. Study response rates varied from 17.9% to 100%, and while validity of the study questionnaire was reported for 100 (63.3%) studies, 15 (9.5%) studies reported reliability test of the study questionnaire. There is a large variety of questionnaires being used for investigating self-medication practices making comparability and meta-analyses very difficult. It is desirable to have a basic set of standardized survey questions on this topic to make available for future research groups in this field.

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Self-Medication Practices with Antibiotics and Antimalarials Among Sudanese Undergraduate University Students

Abstract: The prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics/antimalarials among undergraduate university students in Khartoum State is high. Our findings highlight the need for planning interventions to promote the judicious use of antibiotics/antimicrobials.

Cited by 91 publications

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Self Medication with Antibiotics among Medical and Pharmacy Students in North India

Self Medication with Antibiotics among Medical and Pharmacy Students in North India

Self-medication among medical student in King Abdul-Aziz University

A systematic review of the literature on survey questionnaires to assess self-medication practices

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