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Self-Medication in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Survival of the Fittest

OBJECTIVE: After the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic, intense efforts to combat the novel coronavirus were undertaken, with many fatalities in most regions of the world. The high fatality rate and socioeconomic collapse affected the health of u...

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Autores principales: Rafiq, Kiran, Nesar, Shagufta, Anser, Humaira, Leghari, Qurat-ul-Ain, Hassan, Alisha, Rizvi, Alina, Raza, Aleeza, Saify, Zafar Saied
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8367859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34099083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2021.173
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author Rafiq, Kiran
Nesar, Shagufta
Anser, Humaira
Leghari, Qurat-ul-Ain
Hassan, Alisha
Rizvi, Alina
Raza, Aleeza
Saify, Zafar Saied
author_facet Rafiq, Kiran
Nesar, Shagufta
Anser, Humaira
Leghari, Qurat-ul-Ain
Hassan, Alisha
Rizvi, Alina
Raza, Aleeza
Saify, Zafar Saied
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description OBJECTIVE: After the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic, intense efforts to combat the novel coronavirus were undertaken, with many fatalities in most regions of the world. The high fatality rate and socioeconomic collapse affected the health of uninfected individuals because healthcare measures and scheduled clinical and hospital visits were avoided by people in an attempt to reduce their exposure to the contagion. The general population began self-medication practices as means to safeguard against exposure to the virus. METHODS: The present study investigated the effectiveness of self-medication compliance among the general population. For this purpose, a questionnaire on the Zenodo scale was developed and adults and teen respondents were asked to complete it, after providing consent. The data gathered were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 26. RESULTS: The study amazingly found high compliance with self-medication among the focused population during the period of COVID-19. Estimated results showed a highly significant correlation of 0.000, P < 0.05, between the adaptation of self-medication and pandemic situation, which was estimated from chi-squared and Fisher test results. CONCLUSIONS: However, the fear of coronavirus made the practice, or malpractice, a survival of the fittest, innate ability of human nature.
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spelling pubmed-83678592021-08-17 Self-Medication in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Survival of the Fittest Rafiq, Kiran Nesar, Shagufta Anser, Humaira Leghari, Qurat-ul-Ain Hassan, Alisha Rizvi, Alina Raza, Aleeza Saify, Zafar Saied Disaster Med Public Health Prep Original Research OBJECTIVE: After the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic, intense efforts to combat the novel coronavirus were undertaken, with many fatalities in most regions of the world. The high fatality rate and socioeconomic collapse affected the health of uninfected individuals because healthcare measures and scheduled clinical and hospital visits were avoided by people in an attempt to reduce their exposure to the contagion. The general population began self-medication practices as means to safeguard against exposure to the virus. METHODS: The present study investigated the effectiveness of self-medication compliance among the general population. For this purpose, a questionnaire on the Zenodo scale was developed and adults and teen respondents were asked to complete it, after providing consent. The data gathered were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 26. RESULTS: The study amazingly found high compliance with self-medication among the focused population during the period of COVID-19. Estimated results showed a highly significant correlation of 0.000, P < 0.05, between the adaptation of self-medication and pandemic situation, which was estimated from chi-squared and Fisher test results. CONCLUSIONS: However, the fear of coronavirus made the practice, or malpractice, a survival of the fittest, innate ability of human nature. Cambridge University Press 2021-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8367859/ /pubmed/34099083 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2021.173 Text en © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nesar, Shagufta
Anser, Humaira
Leghari, Qurat-ul-Ain
Hassan, Alisha
Rizvi, Alina
Raza, Aleeza
Saify, Zafar Saied
Self-Medication in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Survival of the Fittest
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title_short Self-Medication in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Survival of the Fittest
title_sort self-medication in the covid-19 pandemic: survival of the fittest
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8367859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34099083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2021.173
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