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Self-Medication Patterns and Drug Use Behavior in Housewives Belonging to the Middle Income Group in a City in Northern India

OBJECTIVES: The objective was to assess the self-medication patterns and drug use behavior in housewives belonging to the middle income group in a city of Haryana State in Northern India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A detailed questionnaire designed to assess the self-medication patterns and drug use beh...

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Autores principales: Kaushal, Jyoti, Gupta, Mahesh C, Jindal, Pooja, Verma, Savita
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22529534
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.94013
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author Kaushal, Jyoti
Gupta, Mahesh C
Jindal, Pooja
Verma, Savita
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Gupta, Mahesh C
Jindal, Pooja
Verma, Savita
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description OBJECTIVES: The objective was to assess the self-medication patterns and drug use behavior in housewives belonging to the middle income group in a city of Haryana State in Northern India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A detailed questionnaire designed to assess the self-medication patterns and drug use behavior and interview technique was used to elicit the requisite information. One hundred housewives of the middle income group were interviewed in Rohtak. RESULTS: Most of the housewives were in the habit of keeping the medicines though only 73% of them were in the habit of using it without any prescription. Also it was seen that those housewives who were taking self-medication were better educated than those not indulged in self-medication. All of them were using allopathic drugs on a regular basis while other modes of medications were less used. The self-medication was most commonly based on the previous prescriptions issued by the doctors followed by the suggestions from friends, advertisement on the television, and newspapers. For most of them the reasons for self-medication were financial restraints and lack of time to go to the medical practitioner. CONCLUSIONS: The study delineates the difference in the self-medication patterns and drug use behavior in housewives in a city of Northern India. The results emphasize the need for comprehensive measures for intervention strategies to promote rational drug therapy by improving prescribing patterns and influencing self-medication.
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spelling pubmed-33268012012-04-23 Self-Medication Patterns and Drug Use Behavior in Housewives Belonging to the Middle Income Group in a City in Northern India Kaushal, Jyoti Gupta, Mahesh C Jindal, Pooja Verma, Savita Indian J Community Med Original Article OBJECTIVES: The objective was to assess the self-medication patterns and drug use behavior in housewives belonging to the middle income group in a city of Haryana State in Northern India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A detailed questionnaire designed to assess the self-medication patterns and drug use behavior and interview technique was used to elicit the requisite information. One hundred housewives of the middle income group were interviewed in Rohtak. RESULTS: Most of the housewives were in the habit of keeping the medicines though only 73% of them were in the habit of using it without any prescription. Also it was seen that those housewives who were taking self-medication were better educated than those not indulged in self-medication. All of them were using allopathic drugs on a regular basis while other modes of medications were less used. The self-medication was most commonly based on the previous prescriptions issued by the doctors followed by the suggestions from friends, advertisement on the television, and newspapers. For most of them the reasons for self-medication were financial restraints and lack of time to go to the medical practitioner. CONCLUSIONS: The study delineates the difference in the self-medication patterns and drug use behavior in housewives in a city of Northern India. The results emphasize the need for comprehensive measures for intervention strategies to promote rational drug therapy by improving prescribing patterns and influencing self-medication. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3326801/ /pubmed/22529534 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.94013 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Community Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kaushal, Jyoti
Gupta, Mahesh C
Jindal, Pooja
Verma, Savita
Self-Medication Patterns and Drug Use Behavior in Housewives Belonging to the Middle Income Group in a City in Northern India
title Self-Medication Patterns and Drug Use Behavior in Housewives Belonging to the Middle Income Group in a City in Northern India
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title_full_unstemmed Self-Medication Patterns and Drug Use Behavior in Housewives Belonging to the Middle Income Group in a City in Northern India
title_short Self-Medication Patterns and Drug Use Behavior in Housewives Belonging to the Middle Income Group in a City in Northern India
title_sort self-medication patterns and drug use behavior in housewives belonging to the middle income group in a city in northern india
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22529534
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0218.94013
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