Perceptions and practices of self-medication in healthcare and nonhealthcare university students in South India
| Autor: | Rama Prakasha Saya, Shweta Oommen, Isabella Topno, Ajitha Sharma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Students Health Occupations Multivariate analysis Adolescent Universities Physiology Cross-sectional study India Self Medication Logistic regression Young Adult Surveys and Questionnaires Drug Discovery Health care medicine Humans Medical prescription Young adult Students Pharmacology business.industry Common cold General Medicine medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies Logistic Models Family medicine Multivariate Analysis Female business Self-medication |
| Zdroj: | Journal of basic and clinical physiology and pharmacology. 26(6) |
| ISSN: | 2191-0286 |
| Popis: | The aim was to study and compare knowledge, attitude and practices regarding self-medication in healthcare and nonhealthcare university students.Suitably constructed, structured and pretested questionnaires were distributed to 350 students in each group; data were documented in SPSS software version 20.0 and analyzed using χCompleted questionnaires only were analyzed, which were 314 and 310 in healthcare and nonhealthcare groups, respectively. The majority of students practiced self-medication (84.4% vs. 68.1%; pThough self-medication is common in university students, there is a dearth in their knowledge regarding the same. This highlights the need for increasing awareness among students regarding hazards of self-medication. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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