Morbidity Profile and Self-medication Practice among the Non-Medical Workers Employed at a Private Health Care Institute in Mangaluru: A Cross Sectional Study

Abstract

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License Hence this study was undertaken with the following Objectives: 1. To know the Socio-demographic and morbidity profile of Non-medical workers who are employed at a private health care institute. 2 To find out the preferential conditions for self medication practice among those non-medical workers and 3. To identify the portal of access to selfmedication among them. MATERIALS AND METHODS Study Area (Background): The study was conducted in Mangaluru, a prominent financial and educational city of Karnataka state located in coastal part of southern India. The city has population of 4.9 lakhs as per 2011 census. [10] The city has 7 private allopathic medical colleges in addition to corporate hospitals, multispecialty hospitals, general hospitals, nursing homes and polyclinics which cater to health care needs of Manglorean population. Study setting: Father Muller health care institute, a prominent health care institute of Mangaluru city providing health care service for last 100 years.