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Self-medication practices and associated factors among households at Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.
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- Self-medication and its typology in Chinese elderly population: A cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Assessment of self-medication practices in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak in Togo.BMC public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveSelf-medication practice is the selection and use of medicines by individuals or a member of the individual's family without physician's order to treat self-recognized or self-diagnosed conditions. It is highly prone to inappropriate use and wastage of resources, increase drug resistance pathogens and adverse reactions. Therefore, this study aimed to assess self-medication practices and associated factors among households at Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia.
resultsThis community based cross-sectional study was conducted among households at Gondar town from March to June, 2018. The overall prevalence of self-medication practices among households at Gondar town were 50.2%. The odds of self-medication practices among unmarried participants (AOR = 3.12; 95% CI 2.35, 5.34), influenced by peer (AOR = 3.58; 95% CI 2.89, 7.28), poor perceived quality of health care services (AOR = 4.67; 95% CI 2.56, 7.96) and access to pharmacy (AOR = 2.32; 95% CI 1.65, 6.76) were higher compared with their counterparts. In the contrary, the lesser odd was observed among knowledgeable participants about medications (AOR = 0.27; 95% CI 0.16, 0.39) compared with non-knowledgeable. Therefore, improving perception of participants about quality of services, conducting awareness creation and managing negative effects of peer may reduce self-medication practices.
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