Pharmacology education and antibiotic self-medication among medical students: a cross-sectional study

OBJECTIVE: Pharmacology teaches rational prescribing. Self-medication among medical students is recognised as a threat to rational prescribing. Antibiotic self-medication could cause antibiotic resistance among medical students. We aimed to find an association between pharmacology education and anti...

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Autores principales: Rathish, Devarajan, Wijerathne, Buddhika, Bandara, Sandaruwan, Piumanthi, Susanhitha, Senevirathna, Chamali, Jayasumana, Channa, Siribaddana, Sisira
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5530969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28750649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2688-4
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author Rathish, Devarajan
Wijerathne, Buddhika
Bandara, Sandaruwan
Piumanthi, Susanhitha
Senevirathna, Chamali
Jayasumana, Channa
Siribaddana, Sisira
author_facet Rathish, Devarajan
Wijerathne, Buddhika
Bandara, Sandaruwan
Piumanthi, Susanhitha
Senevirathna, Chamali
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description OBJECTIVE: Pharmacology teaches rational prescribing. Self-medication among medical students is recognised as a threat to rational prescribing. Antibiotic self-medication could cause antibiotic resistance among medical students. We aimed to find an association between pharmacology education and antibiotic self-medication. RESULTS: Overall, 39% [(110/285) 95% CI 32.9–44.3] of students were found to have antibiotic self-medication. The percentage for antibiotic self-medication progressively increased with the year of study. The percentage of antibiotic self-medication was significantly high in the “Formal Pharmacology Education” group (47%—77/165) in comparison to the “No Formal Pharmacology Education” group (28%—33/120) (P = 0.001032). Overall, the most common self-prescribed antibiotic was amoxicillin (56%—62/110).
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spelling pubmed-55309692017-08-02 Pharmacology education and antibiotic self-medication among medical students: a cross-sectional study Rathish, Devarajan Wijerathne, Buddhika Bandara, Sandaruwan Piumanthi, Susanhitha Senevirathna, Chamali Jayasumana, Channa Siribaddana, Sisira BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Pharmacology teaches rational prescribing. Self-medication among medical students is recognised as a threat to rational prescribing. Antibiotic self-medication could cause antibiotic resistance among medical students. We aimed to find an association between pharmacology education and antibiotic self-medication. RESULTS: Overall, 39% [(110/285) 95% CI 32.9–44.3] of students were found to have antibiotic self-medication. The percentage for antibiotic self-medication progressively increased with the year of study. The percentage of antibiotic self-medication was significantly high in the “Formal Pharmacology Education” group (47%—77/165) in comparison to the “No Formal Pharmacology Education” group (28%—33/120) (P = 0.001032). Overall, the most common self-prescribed antibiotic was amoxicillin (56%—62/110). BioMed Central 2017-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5530969/ /pubmed/28750649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2688-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Piumanthi, Susanhitha
Senevirathna, Chamali
Jayasumana, Channa
Siribaddana, Sisira
Pharmacology education and antibiotic self-medication among medical students: a cross-sectional study
title Pharmacology education and antibiotic self-medication among medical students: a cross-sectional study
title_full Pharmacology education and antibiotic self-medication among medical students: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Pharmacology education and antibiotic self-medication among medical students: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Pharmacology education and antibiotic self-medication among medical students: a cross-sectional study
title_short Pharmacology education and antibiotic self-medication among medical students: a cross-sectional study
title_sort pharmacology education and antibiotic self-medication among medical students: a cross-sectional study
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5530969/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2688-4
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