Assessment of Self-Medication Practices and Its Associated Factors among Undergraduates of a Private University in Nigeria
المؤلفون المشاركون
Esan, Deborah Tolulope
Fasoro, Ayodeji Akinwande
Odesanya, Opeoluwa Esther
Esan, Theophilus Olaide
Ojo, Elizabeth Funmilayo
Faeji, Charles Oluwafemi
المصدر
Journal of Environmental and Public Health
العدد
المجلد 2018، العدد 2018 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2018)، ص ص. 1-7، 7ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2018-12-20
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
7
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Background.
Self-medication is the use of drugs to treat self-diagnosed disorders or symptoms or the intermittent or continued use of prescribed drug for chronic or recurrent disease or symptoms, and it is mostly common in developing countries.
This study therefore assessed the practice of self-medication among undergraduate students of a private university in Nigeria.
Methods.
The study employed a descriptive cross-sectional design.
A pretested questionnaire was self-administered to 384 undergraduate students of the university.
Data were analysed and summarised using descriptive and inferential statistics such as chi-squared and Fisher’s exact tests.
Results.
Overall, 297 (81.8%) undergraduate students practiced self-medication.
About 71% of the students had used analgesic, antibiotics (10.5%), and antimalarial drugs (33%) without prescription within one month prior to the survey.
The most commonly used drug for self-medication was paracetamol (75.1%).
Furthermore, self-medication was found to be significantly associated with age (p=0.021), gender (p<0.001), college (p=0.025), and year of study (p=0.004).
Some of the reasons why undergraduate students practiced self-medication were because of the unfriendly attitude of health care workers (27.7%), lack of time to go to school clinic (26.7%), school clinic is too far from hostel (15.3%), and drugs prescribed in the school clinic do not improve health condition (15.3%).
Conclusion.
Majority of the students attributed the practice of self-medication to unfriendly attitude of health care workers in the university clinic.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Esan, Deborah Tolulope& Fasoro, Ayodeji Akinwande& Odesanya, Opeoluwa Esther& Esan, Theophilus Olaide& Ojo, Elizabeth Funmilayo& Faeji, Charles Oluwafemi. 2018. Assessment of Self-Medication Practices and Its Associated Factors among Undergraduates of a Private University in Nigeria. Journal of Environmental and Public Health،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1184817
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Esan, Deborah Tolulope…[et al.]. Assessment of Self-Medication Practices and Its Associated Factors among Undergraduates of a Private University in Nigeria. Journal of Environmental and Public Health No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1184817
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Esan, Deborah Tolulope& Fasoro, Ayodeji Akinwande& Odesanya, Opeoluwa Esther& Esan, Theophilus Olaide& Ojo, Elizabeth Funmilayo& Faeji, Charles Oluwafemi. Assessment of Self-Medication Practices and Its Associated Factors among Undergraduates of a Private University in Nigeria. Journal of Environmental and Public Health. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1184817
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1184817
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