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Self-Medication Practice among Students of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Paperback)
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The objective of this study was to determine the knowledge,
behavior and perception of self-medication practice among the
students of Pharmaceutical sciences from different private and
public Universities of Bangladesh. The study showed that each and
every respondent (n=474) (100%) had knowledge about
self-medication. The most common indications for self medication
were diarrhea (95.15%), fever (94.30%), headache (76.16%), cough
(70.04%), gastric pain (65.82%), allergy (52.32%), vomiting
(45.78%), vitamin deficiency (45.57%), stomachache (40.51%),
constipation (37.13%), insomnia (33.97%), and skin diseases
(29.11%). The major reasons for self medication were non-serious
illness (87.55%), emergency use (79.96%), quick relief (85.86%),
previous experience (83.97%), and unavailability of doctors
(89.87%), advice from the family members / friends (51.90%), and
cost-effectiveness (41.35%). The result showed that self medication
was done mainly by analgesics (65.12%), the drugs acting on GIT
(62.14%), cough suppressants (38.15%), antibiotics (22.86%),
antihistamines (25.67%), and vitamins (25.81%).
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