Study of Knowledge and Practices of Self-Medication among Medical Students at Jammu

Kumari, Rashmi; Kiran, Kiran; Kumar, Dinesh; Bahl, Rakesh; Gupta, Rajiv Kumar

doi:10.33883/jms.v15i2.252

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“…Today, self-medication is one of the biggest socio-health and economic problems of various societies, including Iran [2]. In some developing countries, many medications are available to public without prescription, thus, self-medication, due to its lower cost, is a replacement for people who cannot afford medical services [3]. This is why in most developing countries more than 60–80% of health problems are associated with self-medication [4].…”

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Exploring the perceived factors that affect self-medication among nursing students: a qualitative study

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BackgroundSelf-medication is the use of one or more medications without physician’s diagnosis, opinion, or prescription and supervision, which includes the use of herbal or chemical drugs. Todays, self-medication is one of the biggest socio-health and economic problems among nursing students of various societies, including Iran, and because this issue can affected by contextual factors, this study aimed to explore the perceived factors that affect self-medication among nursing students.MethodsIn this qualitative study, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 11 nursing students. The transcript of each interview was reviewed several times and classified into main categories and sub-categories by content analysis. To evaluate this study, Guba and Lincoln’s four criteria, including credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability were considered for trustworthiness.ResultsAfter analyzing the qualitative content of the interviews, four main categories, including educational backgrounds, nature of the disease, access to the media, and beliefs and personal experiences, and ten subcategories, including contact with clinical environment, relative knowledge about medications, simplicity of the disease, recurrence of the disease, influence of the media, use of the internet, believing in own knowledge, positive experiences of traditional medicine, and using own and others’ experiences, were extracted.ConclusionsIt seems that, having a relative awareness about various diseases and medications, which is sometimes associated with taking a few educational courses with an internship, creates a false confidence in student for self-medication and prescribing drugs to others. It would be beneficial if the education system and associated tutors could inform the students about the possible consequences of this issue. By knowing the internal and subjective factors that influence the self-medication, this arbitrary practice can be largely prevented.

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“…The present study revealed that 74% of students accepted Self Medication practices . However,the other similar type of studies have reported different figures ranging from 43.2 to 91 91% (8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16). The variation may be due to different demographic profile.…”

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“…The variation may be due to different demographic profile. The percentage of students who confessed self medication vary amongst different years of students and found increasing from first year to final year as final year student is having more knowledge of medicine (9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16). Conversely, a study carried out in Maharashtra reported more prevalence in first year students (17).…”

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Assessment and Evaluation of the Problem of Self-Medication among First Year Medical Students of Skims Medical College, Bemina

Hamid

2017

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BACKGROUND:Self-medication is a state when a person uses a substance to self-administer treatment for physical or mental ailments. There are some drugs in the market that one can buy without a prescription. These are safe and effective when taken as per the directions on the label and as directed by the General Practioner.The most widely self-medicated substances are these over-the-counter drugs.The Self medication is quite common practice in general and particularly among medical students. However self-medication can be quite harmful as well. AIM : To assess and evaluate the problem of self-medications among the medical students of first professional MBBS in SKIMS Medical College ,Bemina,Srinagar. SUBJECTS AND METHODS : This is a questionnaire-based, descriptive study. A prevalidated questionnaire was prepared and each student was asked to fill up the Performa and then the data was analyzed.A total of 100 First year medical students of SKIMS medical college participated in the study after taking proper verbal consent. RESULTS:Out of the 100 respondents, 50 (50%) were males and 50 (50 %) were females. The age group affected was 12-19 years. 74% of students practiced Self medication and the source of medication was local chemist (52%) or from drug pharmacy (22%).55% of the affected students are aware of side-effects of self medication as most of them read the leaflet before taking medicine (67%). However, 72% of the affected students take advice from others before taking the medicine.The reason for self medication by medical students is due to mild illness (43% cases) and past experience (27% cases) and the students found selfmedication providing quick relief in common illnesses. Headache (66%) followed by common cold (30%) , sore throat (25%) , fever (23%) Acidity (22%) etc were the most common symptoms for which self medication was taken.Among drugs Paracetamol (58%) followed by anti-cold(23%),antibiotics(22%), cough syrup (21%) , antacids(20%) were the main self medicated medicines.Most common age of students for starting self-medication were 16 years(26%) followed by 15 years(21%) ,18 years(12%)etc. Only 15% of the students have some knowledge about trade name , course and dosage of drugs.Only 31% of students are aware about completing full course of antibiotic. About 47% students had a view that they are influenced by medical knowledge for self-medication.The Students' knowledge about the benefits and risks of self-medication was adequate although it was relatively poor so far as adverse effects of overall drugs were concerned(43%). Important disadvantages of self-medication mentioned were the risk of using inappropriate drugs ,dosage, course and adverse effects of drugs. CONCLUSION:self-medication seen in present study among the first year medical students is about (74 %) and is more or less comparable to studies from other parts of the world. The result emphasizes the amount of problem in the young medical students about self-medication and lack of awareness about dosage, course of drugs & side effects. Hen...

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“…But we have come across limited studies regarding comparative evaluation among MBBS and dental students. 6,7 Therefore the present study was conceived to examine and compare the KAP among these two groups.…”

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Comparative study of knowledge, attitude and practice of self-medication among undergraduate students of MBBS and BDS

Rani

Sadiq

Khajuria

2018

Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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Background: Comparative studies are quite useful in evaluating the current practices in self medication among a similar subset of population. Since, self medication is one of the major causes of promoting irrational use of drugs its burden needs to be estimated more so in students with medical background.Methods: The study was conducted in a tertiary care teaching medical college among MBBS and BDS students. A questionnaire was selected based on outcome of small surveys done prior to this current study was among the MBBS and BDS students to assess their Knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) towards self medication. Data was analyzed and expressed as numbers and percentage.Results: Total 180 students participated in the study voluntarily (100 MBBS and 80 BDS). Knowledge regarding self medication was more seen in MBBS students as compared to dental students. Only five of MBBS students encountered ADR’s(Adverse drug reactions) due to self medication. Analgesic group of drugs was the most common medication used by both the groups and pain was the chief component for which drug therapy was used.Conclusions: This study showed that students had fair knowledge about self medication but it appeared to be more among MBBS students as compared to BDS, although knowledge about ADR’s was not up to the mark. The attitude and practice of self medication was similar in both the groups. Thus, it is important to impart proper knowledge about self medication among medical students and encouragement regarding ADR teaching should be promoted.

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Study of Knowledge and Practices of Self-Medication among Medical Students at Jammu

Cited by 29 publications

References 9 publications

Exploring the perceived factors that affect self-medication among nursing students: a qualitative study

Exploring the perceived factors that affect self-medication among nursing students: a qualitative study

Assessment and Evaluation of the Problem of Self-Medication among First Year Medical Students of Skims Medical College, Bemina

Comparative study of knowledge, attitude and practice of self-medication among undergraduate students of MBBS and BDS

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