Abstract
In everyday life, self-medication is a usual mean of self-care either with drugs or alternative medicines that calls for attention from health psychologists. The aim of this qualitative study is to explore and understand self-medication among experts in the health and illness world. Semi-structured interviews with nurses have been analysed using Grounded Theory model. Results show that self-medication is a pragmatic behaviour embedded in the history of the individual, sensitive to his socioeconomic and professional context. As experts for their own health, nurses’ strategies to deal with their minor ailments raise the question of “pharmacologisation” of everyday life.
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