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Self-Medication of Drugs in Nursing Students from Castile and Leon (Spain)
To determine the prevalence of self-medication in nursing students and their related factors, a transversal, descriptive study was performed on a sample of 378 nursing students. A total of 73.8% of the sample declared having used off-prescription drugs during the last month (2.84;2.26–3.58). A total...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7914606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33562435 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041498 |
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author | Galán Andrés, Maria Isabel Guijo Blanco, Valeriana Casado Verdejo, Inés Iglesias Guerra, José Antonio Fernández García, Daniel |
author_facet | Galán Andrés, Maria Isabel Guijo Blanco, Valeriana Casado Verdejo, Inés Iglesias Guerra, José Antonio Fernández García, Daniel |
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description | To determine the prevalence of self-medication in nursing students and their related factors, a transversal, descriptive study was performed on a sample of 378 nursing students. A total of 73.8% of the sample declared having used off-prescription drugs during the last month (2.84;2.26–3.58). A total of 28.9% said they did this because they are familiar with the health problem and its pharmacological solution and 25% deemed that it was a mild health problem. Drugs most commonly used off-prescription were analgesics in 88.91% (3.63;2.74–4.80) of occasions. They were mainly recommended by the students’ family (1.31;1.03–1.65) on 58.12% of the cases. Students keep analgesics they take off-prescription in their home first aid kit (4.47;3.28–6.08; p < 0.001). Unlike other studies, 53.2% obtained off-prescription drugs from the home first aid kit (1.13;0.89–1.43; p < 0.001). In addition, they gave advice and recommend drugs they have taken to other people with similar symptoms (1.97;1.59–2.44). A total of 85.72% kept excess drugs after a treatment (6.00;4.50–7.99). Self-medication is related to the storage of unused medicines and giving advice on the use of drugs to other people, among other things. Self-medication of drugs among nursing students is high. Thus, it appears necessary to review the training on rational the use of drugs and responsible self-medication in the discipline’s curriculum. |
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spelling | pubmed-79146062021-03-01 Self-Medication of Drugs in Nursing Students from Castile and Leon (Spain) Galán Andrés, Maria Isabel Guijo Blanco, Valeriana Casado Verdejo, Inés Iglesias Guerra, José Antonio Fernández García, Daniel Int J Environ Res Public Health Article To determine the prevalence of self-medication in nursing students and their related factors, a transversal, descriptive study was performed on a sample of 378 nursing students. A total of 73.8% of the sample declared having used off-prescription drugs during the last month (2.84;2.26–3.58). A total of 28.9% said they did this because they are familiar with the health problem and its pharmacological solution and 25% deemed that it was a mild health problem. Drugs most commonly used off-prescription were analgesics in 88.91% (3.63;2.74–4.80) of occasions. They were mainly recommended by the students’ family (1.31;1.03–1.65) on 58.12% of the cases. Students keep analgesics they take off-prescription in their home first aid kit (4.47;3.28–6.08; p < 0.001). Unlike other studies, 53.2% obtained off-prescription drugs from the home first aid kit (1.13;0.89–1.43; p < 0.001). In addition, they gave advice and recommend drugs they have taken to other people with similar symptoms (1.97;1.59–2.44). A total of 85.72% kept excess drugs after a treatment (6.00;4.50–7.99). Self-medication is related to the storage of unused medicines and giving advice on the use of drugs to other people, among other things. Self-medication of drugs among nursing students is high. Thus, it appears necessary to review the training on rational the use of drugs and responsible self-medication in the discipline’s curriculum. MDPI 2021-02-05 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7914606/ /pubmed/33562435 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041498 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Galán Andrés, Maria Isabel Guijo Blanco, Valeriana Casado Verdejo, Inés Iglesias Guerra, José Antonio Fernández García, Daniel Self-Medication of Drugs in Nursing Students from Castile and Leon (Spain) |
title | Self-Medication of Drugs in Nursing Students from Castile and Leon (Spain) |
title_full | Self-Medication of Drugs in Nursing Students from Castile and Leon (Spain) |
title_fullStr | Self-Medication of Drugs in Nursing Students from Castile and Leon (Spain) |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-Medication of Drugs in Nursing Students from Castile and Leon (Spain) |
title_short | Self-Medication of Drugs in Nursing Students from Castile and Leon (Spain) |
title_sort | self-medication of drugs in nursing students from castile and leon (spain) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7914606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33562435 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041498 |
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