ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care
A comparison of the frequency, risk factors, and type of self-medication in pregnant and nonpregnant women presenting to Shahid Akbar Abadi Teaching Hospital in Tehran.
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- Patient-physician communication on herbal medicine use during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ global health · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence and associated factors of self-medication in worldwide pregnant women: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence, motivation, and associated factors of medicinal herbs consumption in pregnant women from Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office: a systematic review.Pharmaceutical biology · 2023Pooled it
- Non-prescribed drug use and its associated factors among pregnant women in Southwest Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Community pharmacist intervention in doxycycline self-medication for acne among pregnant women in Saudi Arabia.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2024Article
- Self-medication among pregnant women in comparison to the general population: a scoping review of the main characteristics.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2024Article
- Self-medication practices among pregnant women in Ethiopia.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2023Article
- Prevalence and impacts of self-medication in a disadvantaged setting: the importance of multi-dimensional health interventions.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Socioeconomic Determinants of Health Contributing to the Consumption of Nonprescribed Medicines in Ethiopia.Patient preference and adherence · 2021Article
- Self-Medication Among Pregnant Women: Prevalence and Associated Factors.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundSelf-medication is a serious health problem that leads to an increased per capita consumption of medications, drug resistance, lack of optimal treatment, drug poisoning, and other unwanted complications. This study was conducted to compare self-medication in pregnant and nonpregnant women presenting to Shahid Akbar Abadi Teaching Hospital in Tehran, Iran. MATERIALS AND
methodsTo conduct this cross-sectional study, 210 pregnant women and 210 nonpregnant women aged 15-45 years presenting to Shahid Akbar Abadi Teaching Hospital, Tehran, Iran, were selected through random sampling. Data were collected through interviews using a semi-structured questionnaire. The Chi-square test,
resultsThe prevalence of self-medication was 34.8% in the pregnant and 77.1% in the nonpregnant women. The age group in which the most frequent instances of self-medication were observed (53.4%) was the 21-30 age group in the pregnant women and the 31-40 age group (44.4%) in the nonpregnant women, suggesting a statistically significant intergroup difference in terms of age (
conclusionsAs medicinal plants are the most common medications used by pregnant women and since assessing the risk of herbal substances is difficult, pregnant women should be advised against the arbitrary use of these substances.
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