Abstract
Background: Self-Medication is medicine consumption without prescription regardless of the cause, amount, and duration of use. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of self-medication and associated factors among a sample of students of Tehran in 2016. Methods: This is a cross sectional descriptive study was conducted with participation of 1269 students from three universities in Tehran, Iran. The samples were selected by cluster sampling method. Data collection tool in this study was a researcher made questionnaire including 62 questions. Validity of questionnaire was approved by CVI and CVR approaches. Data were analyzed with SPSS version 19 and using the central indices, t-test, chi-square, Pearson correlation coefficient and logistic regression. Results: mean age of students was 21.13±1.19 years. 80.7% of participants had a history of self-medication in the past six months. The highest rate of self-medication in both genders was belonged to headache 65.4%, colds 41.9%, cough and sore throat 27.2%,. Results showed that there was a statistically significant differences between self-medication with gender, university, and level of knowledge (p
Highlights
Self-Medication is the provision and consumption of drugs for the treatment of ailments and diagnosed symptoms by people (Fresle and Wolfheim, 1997)
The most frequenteddrugs used for self-medication were: Analgesic 65.2%, cold tablets 53.1%, and antibiotics 42%, respectively (Table 3)
A review study in Iran has estimated the overall rate of self-medication in the general population about 53%, among students 67%, in housewives 36%, and in the elderly 68% (Azami-Aghdash et al, 2015)
Summary
Self-Medication is the provision and consumption of drugs for the treatment of ailments and diagnosed symptoms by people (Fresle and Wolfheim, 1997). Self-medication is one of the greatest social, economic and public health problems in many countries such as Iran (Bennadi, 2014). This occurs through the consumption of an industrial or home-made drug, providing the medicines without prescription, use of previously prescribed drugs in similar cases, use of residual or additional drugs at home, or refusing to take a prescribed drug currently (WHO Guidelines, 2000). Self-Medication is medicine consumption without prescription regardless of the cause, amount, and duration of use. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of self-medication and associated factors among a sample of students of Tehran in 2016. As well as conducting education about the negative effects of drugs for students and other community groups is essential
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