The Prevalence and Affecting Factors on Self-Medication Among Students of Kermanshah University of Medical Science in 2014

Ahmadi, Soleiman; Jamshidi, Khadije; Sadeghi, Khirollah; Abdi, Alireza; Vahid, Mansour Pashaie

doi:10.7860/jcdr/2016/18018.7847

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“…Having adequate knowledge on these patterns helps to identify and determine the prevalence of illnesses, and provides information on how to use health resources [7]. It is also expected that, the well-educated community including university students, is more aware of the danger of self-medication than ordinary people [8]. In this regard, the results of Ehigiator et al study showed that, most nursing students, midwives and dentists were self-medicating and its influential factors included getting advice from pharmacy staff, friends and other healthcare professionals, as well as previous experiences with the disease [9].…”

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Exploring the perceived factors that affect self-medication among nursing students: a qualitative study

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BackgroundSelf-medication is the use of one or more medications without physician’s diagnosis, opinion, or prescription and supervision, which includes the use of herbal or chemical drugs. Todays, self-medication is one of the biggest socio-health and economic problems among nursing students of various societies, including Iran, and because this issue can affected by contextual factors, this study aimed to explore the perceived factors that affect self-medication among nursing students.MethodsIn this qualitative study, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 11 nursing students. The transcript of each interview was reviewed several times and classified into main categories and sub-categories by content analysis. To evaluate this study, Guba and Lincoln’s four criteria, including credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability were considered for trustworthiness.ResultsAfter analyzing the qualitative content of the interviews, four main categories, including educational backgrounds, nature of the disease, access to the media, and beliefs and personal experiences, and ten subcategories, including contact with clinical environment, relative knowledge about medications, simplicity of the disease, recurrence of the disease, influence of the media, use of the internet, believing in own knowledge, positive experiences of traditional medicine, and using own and others’ experiences, were extracted.ConclusionsIt seems that, having a relative awareness about various diseases and medications, which is sometimes associated with taking a few educational courses with an internship, creates a false confidence in student for self-medication and prescribing drugs to others. It would be beneficial if the education system and associated tutors could inform the students about the possible consequences of this issue. By knowing the internal and subjective factors that influence the self-medication, this arbitrary practice can be largely prevented.

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“…According to the figures, the rate of drugs consumption in Iran is three times more than the global average rate [1][2][3]. Scientific studies have revealed the various prevalence rates of selfmedication, and that there are some factors leading to arbitrary use of drugs among Iranians.…”

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“…For example, rate of self-medication among Iranians estimated in different studies were 33.7% [2], 83% [3], 36% [4] and 26% [5]. Self-medication or arbitrary use of drugs can be defined as the use of medicines by people in order to treat self-recognized or self-diagnosed diseases [1]. It is a medical behaviour of individuals, commonly used for subsiding the primary symptoms of diseases as the first choice [2].…”

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Iranians’ Self-Report Knowledge and Practice about Arbitrary Use of Antibiotics

Hosseinzadeh

Jalil

2017

JCDR

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“…Education plays a significant role in its prevalence. 6 This study has found more occurrence of self-medication in second year students which was around 40%. This may be because of studying pharmacology subject in second year which was supported by other studies.…”

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“…1 Educational status, friends, family, society and drug advertisements etc., are influencing factors which affect the pattern of self-medication. 6 A study had described that educated people practiced selfmedication more than illiterates. 7 Higher education and professional status has been mentioned as predictive factor.…”

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Prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practice regarding self-medication among medical, dental and paramedical students in a tertiary care hospital

Johnson¹,

Badyal²

2018

Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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Background: Self-medication is practiced universally. Having medical knowledge plays a vital role in its prevalence. It is more prevalent in higher education course students especially medical students. However, it is increasing in dental and paramedical students. Hence, this study was conducted to evaluate self-medication among medical, dental and para-medical students in a tertiary care hospital.Methods: A cross sectional questionnaire based study was conducted among 449 undergraduate students. They were divided into three groups. A questionnaire was developed based on literature. The questionnaire was validated and finalised. The paper questionnaire was administered to students. The data collected from questionnaires was analysed. The results were expressed as percentages and frequencies.Results: The male female ratio of students who filled questionnaire was 65:35. All the students (100%) reported that they practice self-medication. The most common reason for self-medication was prior experience (36%) in group A as well as in group B (46%), but in group C, 39% mentioned no serious problem. Main information source was family members in all the groups (A 57%, B 53%, C 29%) followed by advice from senior/friends. Fever was most common symptom reported (29%) by group A followed headache (28%) in group C and cough and cold (23%) in group B. The commonest group of drugs used is cough syrups (25%) in group B, followed by analgesics (23%) in group C and antipyretics (21%) in group A.Conclusions: Self-medication is growing among dental and paramedical students too. It is necessary to educate them about self-medication to prevent future disastrous consequences as well as to make them aware of appropriate use of self-medication.

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The Prevalence and Affecting Factors on Self-Medication Among Students of Kermanshah University of Medical Science in 2014

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Exploring the perceived factors that affect self-medication among nursing students: a qualitative study

Exploring the perceived factors that affect self-medication among nursing students: a qualitative study

Iranians’ Self-Report Knowledge and Practice about Arbitrary Use of Antibiotics

Prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practice regarding self-medication among medical, dental and paramedical students in a tertiary care hospital

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