Awareness of home drug storage and utilization habits: Saudi study
| Autor: | Ahmed A H Ali, Thuraiya khairllah Jan, Marwa Ibrahim Koshok, Mohamed E.A. Abdelrahim Mohammed Gamal, Samia Mohammad AL-tawil, Ahmed H. M. Sobh, Ebtesam Abdulrhaman Alghamdi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Drug insulin media_common.quotation_subject Population lcsh:Medicine Expiration date Insulin syringe storage 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine antibiotic Environmental health Medicine awareness education Home drug media_common lcsh:R5-920 education.field_of_study Forgetting business.industry lcsh:R 030104 developmental biology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Age distribution Drug Storage lcsh:Medicine (General) business |
| Zdroj: | Medicine Science, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 73-76 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2147-0634 |
| DOI: | 10.5455/medscience.2017.06.8687 |
| Popis: | The aim of the study was to investigate the awareness of residents in Saudi Arabia toward in-home drug storage and the using habits of their medications. This is a descriptive study that involved an electronic survey about drug storage and utilization habits. It was developed, pretested, and distributed via the social media among the population in Saudi-Arabia. About 1400 persons participated in this study. Around 84.4%, 96.6% and 58.3% of participants stored their insulin syringes, antibiotic or cough-syrup after opening in there frigerator, respectively. Moreover, most of them avoided use or discard their products upon exposure to the sun or forgetting them in the car for the whole day. 87.5% disclosed that they usually check the expiration date on drug products before using and 49.7% added they always follow the instructions regarding duration-of-use compared with 45.85% who said sometimes they follow it. 99.7% of them reported that they avoid using products upon change in color or formulation. Finally, variable-correlation was found between the age distribution of participants and their responses. The results revealed that the participants exhibited promising awareness toward the in-home drug storage in Saudi Arabia [Med-Science 2018; 7(1.000): 73-76] |
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