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The aim was to identify the reasons that lead to self-medication in students in the health area, and to catalog the main medications used. This is an integrative literature review that identified articles related to the subject in the Virtual Health Library (VHL) database. They were selected by the descriptors: Self-medication, University and Analgesics, between the periods of 2015 to 2020, in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Incomplete texts, duplicates and theses were used as exclusion criteria. Totaling 10 eligible articles. It resulted from the synthesis of articles ordered by means of tables, in which it was possible to evidence a high prevalence of self-medication among university students, drug classes, and their determinants. In conclusion, there was a need to implement educational actions to clarify the risk related to self-medication. |
