Self-medication of patients with common cold among 15-45 year old individuals, Babol, 1998

Objective: Self-medication is one of the most important health problems, which could result in many complications in the community. The annual money expresses on drugs for self-medication is considerable. One of these instances is the common cold for which people consume antibiotics in addition to s...

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Autores principales:	AA Moghadam Nia, R Ghadimi
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Publicado:	Babol University of Medical Sciences 2000
Materias:	self-medication automedication antibiotics common cold urban rural Medicine R Medicine (General) R5-920
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e359dc920f1f4a7db9b18afda0ed719a2021-11-10T09:21:59ZSelf-medication of patients with common cold among 15-45 year old individuals, Babol, 19981561-41072251-7170https://doaj.org/article/e359dc920f1f4a7db9b18afda0ed719a2000-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://jbums.org/article-1-2929-en.htmlhttps://doaj.org/toc/1561-4107https://doaj.org/toc/2251-7170Objective: Self-medication is one of the most important health problems, which could result in many complications in the community. The annual money expresses on drugs for self-medication is considerable. One of these instances is the common cold for which people consume antibiotics in addition to symptom allaying drugs. The present study was designed to find self-medication methods and their comparison between rural and urban societies in 1999. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study on 961 rural and urban persons in the second half of the 1998. A systematic clustered sampling was performed with 25 persons in every cluster. The subjects were 15-45 years old. The data were gathered by testified questionnaire and then entered to code sheets and then analyzed with X² statistic test. The P<0.05 was considered significant. Findings: The mean age was 28.8±9.4 years old. This study showed that 40.4% of the affected patients with common cold referred to physicians. The rate of reference of 31-45 year old individuals was higher than that for 15-30 year-old persons (42% vs. 39.1%). Also the relationship of patients’ reference and education was surveyed. 44.8% of the patients with under six year education, 38.5% with 6-12 year, 8% (41.3) with over 12 year education referred to physicians, that was in significant. The rural subjects referred to the physicians more than the urban population, (47% vs. 35.8%) that was significant (P<0.0005). 81.3% of those who didn’t refer to a medical center started self-medication plans with antibiotics with a range of 1-14 day a mean of 4±2 days, of course 54% of the patients referred to the physicians after their self-medication. As well as, there was significant relationship between education and self-medication (P<0.0003). 86.1% of the patients could easily take the drugs from the pharmacy without any prescription. Conclusion: According to the results, the self-medication ratio is considerable in our society although, it is rather low in rural societies. Unfortunately, self-medication with antibiotics is very popular. By the way, these problems need a more careful supervision of the administrator. The physicians and the pharmacists in providing the patients with suitable information and not persuading them into self-medication.AA Moghadam NiaR GhadimiBabol University of Medical Sciencesarticleself-medicationautomedicationantibioticscommon coldurbanruralMedicineRMedicine (General)R5-920ENFAMajallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Bābul, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 26-32 (2000)
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description	Objective: Self-medication is one of the most important health problems, which could result in many complications in the community. The annual money expresses on drugs for self-medication is considerable. One of these instances is the common cold for which people consume antibiotics in addition to symptom allaying drugs. The present study was designed to find self-medication methods and their comparison between rural and urban societies in 1999. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study on 961 rural and urban persons in the second half of the 1998. A systematic clustered sampling was performed with 25 persons in every cluster. The subjects were 15-45 years old. The data were gathered by testified questionnaire and then entered to code sheets and then analyzed with X² statistic test. The P<0.05 was considered significant. Findings: The mean age was 28.8±9.4 years old. This study showed that 40.4% of the affected patients with common cold referred to physicians. The rate of reference of 31-45 year old individuals was higher than that for 15-30 year-old persons (42% vs. 39.1%). Also the relationship of patients’ reference and education was surveyed. 44.8% of the patients with under six year education, 38.5% with 6-12 year, 8% (41.3) with over 12 year education referred to physicians, that was in significant. The rural subjects referred to the physicians more than the urban population, (47% vs. 35.8%) that was significant (P<0.0005). 81.3% of those who didn’t refer to a medical center started self-medication plans with antibiotics with a range of 1-14 day a mean of 4±2 days, of course 54% of the patients referred to the physicians after their self-medication. As well as, there was significant relationship between education and self-medication (P<0.0003). 86.1% of the patients could easily take the drugs from the pharmacy without any prescription. Conclusion: According to the results, the self-medication ratio is considerable in our society although, it is rather low in rural societies. Unfortunately, self-medication with antibiotics is very popular. By the way, these problems need a more careful supervision of the administrator. The physicians and the pharmacists in providing the patients with suitable information and not persuading them into self-medication.
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Self-medication of patients with common cold among 15-45 year old individuals, Babol, 1998

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