Practice of Self-medication and its Determinants among Non-medical Adult Population of Rawalpindi

Practice of Self-medication and its Determinants among Non-medical Adult Population of Rawalpindi

Blog Article

Objective: To analyse self-medication practice and its determinants among non-medical adult population of Rawalpindi.Study type, settings & duration: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in Rawalpindi city from April to September 2022.Methodology: The 382 non-medical adults were enrolled through consecutive non-probability sampling.Self-administered structured questionnaire was used BIOTIN 10 to gather the information pertinent to demographics of study subjects, distance from healthcare facility, access to medicines, ways of demanding medicine from pharmacist, reasons/ ailments for self-medication and source of information about drug.

The data was analysed by using SPSS version 25.0 and Microsoft Excel 2016.Chi-square test was applied to determine the association of self-medication practice with education and socio-economic Feeding status.p 0.

05) with self-medication practice.Almost 61.8% of respondents were urban dwellers and 70% were students.About 40.

14% were practicing self-medication in compliance with previous prescription.Conclusion: Female students are more indulged in self-medication practice for getting relief of their symptoms from previously prescribed medications.