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Assessment of Nature, Reasons, and Consequences of Self-medication Practice among General Population of Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE
AIM: The aim of this study is to assess the nature, reasons, and consequences of self-medication practice among the general population of Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a prospective, cross-sectional, survey-based study. Data with respect to knowledge, awareness, and practices...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5846215/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29552527 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_46_17 |
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author | Sridhar, Sathvik B Shariff, Atiqulla Dallah, Lana Anas, Doaa Ayman, Maryam Rao, Padma GM |
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description | AIM: The aim of this study is to assess the nature, reasons, and consequences of self-medication practice among the general population of Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a prospective, cross-sectional, survey-based study. Data with respect to knowledge, awareness, and practices regarding self-medication were collected through an interviewer-assisted questionnaire answered by the study participants. Thus, collected data from 413 survey respondents were analyzed using SPSS version 24.0. RESULTS: The prevalence of self-medication practices among our study respondents was 52.1%. A headache (155 [37.5%]) was the most common clinical condition treated through self-medication practice. Familiarity with the treatment/medication (198 [48%]) was the most common cited reasons, whereas the advertisement and friend's advice were the most (182 [44%]) cited sources of information for self-medication usage. The majority (265 [64.1%]) of the respondents were considered self-medication practice as safe. However, 19 respondents reported side-effects or complications during the due course of self-medication. It was observed that there is a statistically significant association (P < 0.05) between age and employment status of this study participants with self-medication practices. CONCLUSION: The data from this study show that the self-medication practice is very common among the study population. Variables such as younger age group and occupation status were significantly associated with self-medication practice. We emphasize the role of pharmacist in educating the community regarding safe medication practices such as harmful effects of self-medicating and inappropriate practices such as sharing the medications among family members and friends. |
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spelling | pubmed-58462152018-03-16 Assessment of Nature, Reasons, and Consequences of Self-medication Practice among General Population of Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE Sridhar, Sathvik B Shariff, Atiqulla Dallah, Lana Anas, Doaa Ayman, Maryam Rao, Padma GM Int J Appl Basic Med Res Original Article AIM: The aim of this study is to assess the nature, reasons, and consequences of self-medication practice among the general population of Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a prospective, cross-sectional, survey-based study. Data with respect to knowledge, awareness, and practices regarding self-medication were collected through an interviewer-assisted questionnaire answered by the study participants. Thus, collected data from 413 survey respondents were analyzed using SPSS version 24.0. RESULTS: The prevalence of self-medication practices among our study respondents was 52.1%. A headache (155 [37.5%]) was the most common clinical condition treated through self-medication practice. Familiarity with the treatment/medication (198 [48%]) was the most common cited reasons, whereas the advertisement and friend's advice were the most (182 [44%]) cited sources of information for self-medication usage. The majority (265 [64.1%]) of the respondents were considered self-medication practice as safe. However, 19 respondents reported side-effects or complications during the due course of self-medication. It was observed that there is a statistically significant association (P < 0.05) between age and employment status of this study participants with self-medication practices. CONCLUSION: The data from this study show that the self-medication practice is very common among the study population. Variables such as younger age group and occupation status were significantly associated with self-medication practice. We emphasize the role of pharmacist in educating the community regarding safe medication practices such as harmful effects of self-medicating and inappropriate practices such as sharing the medications among family members and friends. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5846215/ /pubmed/29552527 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_46_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Sridhar, Sathvik B Shariff, Atiqulla Dallah, Lana Anas, Doaa Ayman, Maryam Rao, Padma GM Assessment of Nature, Reasons, and Consequences of Self-medication Practice among General Population of Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE |
title | Assessment of Nature, Reasons, and Consequences of Self-medication Practice among General Population of Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE |
title_full | Assessment of Nature, Reasons, and Consequences of Self-medication Practice among General Population of Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE |
title_fullStr | Assessment of Nature, Reasons, and Consequences of Self-medication Practice among General Population of Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of Nature, Reasons, and Consequences of Self-medication Practice among General Population of Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE |
title_short | Assessment of Nature, Reasons, and Consequences of Self-medication Practice among General Population of Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE |
title_sort | assessment of nature, reasons, and consequences of self-medication practice among general population of ras al-khaimah, uae |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5846215/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29552527 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_46_17 |
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