Health Seeking Behaviour among Medical Students in a Teaching Hospital of Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
| Autor: | Mukta Singh Bhandari, Jagdish Chataut |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Students Medical Cross-sectional study Health Behavior education medical students Self Medication Data entry Teaching hospital Nepal health behaviour health care utilization Absenteeism Health care medicine Humans Informal consultation Hospitals Teaching lcsh:R5-920 Health seeking business.industry General Medicine Patient Acceptance of Health Care Cross-Sectional Studies Family medicine Female Original Article lcsh:Medicine (General) business Attitude to Health Education Medical Undergraduate Self-medication |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nepal Medical Association, Vol 58, Iss 221 (2020) JNMA: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association |
| ISSN: | 1815-672X 0028-2715 |
| DOI: | 10.31729/jnma.4741 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Medical students are more prone to suffer from various physiological and psychologicalproblems but rather than seeking for formal health care, they tend to do informal consultation andoften practice self medication. Thus, this study aimed to find out the health seeking behavior ofmedical students. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was done among first and second year medicalstudents of a teaching hospital from September to November 2019 after taking ethical approvalfrom Institutional Review Committe. Total of 235 students were included in the study and selfadministered questionnaire was used. Data entry and analysis was done using Statistical Packagefor Social Sciences version 20.0. Results: Among 235 students who participated in the study, 172 (73%) reported having healthproblems in the last 12 months, and fever and headache were commonly reported by 21 (13%) and 18(50%) students, respectively. Total of 112 (65%) students visited hospital/clinic for health problemsand reason given for not visiting hospital/clinic was 12 (28%) thinking that the problem was minor.University hospital was the most preferred place 189 (80%) during health problem and parents werethe first people for consultation 116 (49%). Mean duration of absenteeism was 2.17±4.1 days and 167(88%) visited hospital more than five times. Conclusions: Health problems were common among students and most of them required multiplehospital visits. Many students seeked for health from hospital/ clinic but informal consultationswere also seen. |
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