ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Self-Medication-Related Behaviors and Poland's COVID-19 Lockdown.
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- Nutrient Supplements for Young Children and Mothers' Self Medication with Over-the-Counter Drugs During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Advancing Pharmaceutical Care in Community Pharmacies in Poland: A Blueprint for Enhanced Patient Care Quality.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Self-medication among general population in the European Union: prevalence and associated factors.European journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- The impact of COVID-19 on hay fever treatment in Japan: A retrospective cohort study based on the Japanese claims database.Clinical and translational allergy · 2024Article
- Impact assessment of self-medication on COVID-19 prevalence in Gauteng, South Africa, using an age-structured disease transmission modelling framework.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Cannabis And College Students: Self-Perceived Mental Health Prior to, During, and After the Pandemic.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2024Article
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- Assessing the Reasons and Adverse Effects of Self-Medication in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone. A Case Study of Moriba Town Section.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2024Article
- Self-medication of adults and children in Poland - results from outpatient health care physicians online questionnaire.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Topic and Trend Analysis of Weibo Discussions About COVID-19 Medications Before and After China's Exit from the Zero-COVID Policy: Retrospective Infoveillance Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Reports analysis of psychotropic drugs related adverse reactions in Australia and Poland during the COVID 19 pandemic.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2023Article
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Abstract
(1) Background: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has changed the functioning of Polish health systems. Telemedicine has been developed and access to prescription drugs (Rx) has been facilitated. This study examined whether these changes and the imposition of a three-month lockdown caused Polish people to engage in more self-medication-related behaviors. (2) Method: After the fourth (final) stage of defrosting the Polish economy, an online survey of a quota sample of 1013 Polish respondents was conducted. (3) Results: Almost half of the respondents (45.6%) indicated that they had engaged in at least one behavior associated with inappropriate self-medication during the lockdown (e.g., 16.6% took medication as a precaution, and 16.8% took an Rx formulation without consultation). Some of these people had never engaged in such behaviors prior to the lockdown. Linear regression showed that higher values of a composite ("lockdown") index of self-medication-related behaviors occurring during lockdown were predicted by greater religiosity and the presence of children in a household. Also, independent samples
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