SELF-MEDICATION IN PATIENTS COMING TO A PRIVATE TEACHING DENTAL HOSPITAL IN PESHAWAR
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33279/jkcd.v11i02.142Keywords:
Self-medication, antibiotics, analgesics, drug resistance, adverse effectsAbstract
Objective:
To determine self-medication among patients visiting a private teaching dental hospital of Peshawar.
Materials and Methods:
The cross sectional study was conducted at Sardar Begum Dental College, Peshawar during a time period of 2 months. Data was collected through a customized Performa using closed ended interview based questionnaire. The questionnaire included question about socio-demographic data as well as information about self-medication practices by respondents through closed ended questions. Data obtained were analyzed with the SPSS version 16.
Results:
A total of 200 patients participated in this study. There were 146 (73.0 %) females and 54 (27.0%) males. The age of the respondents ranged between 16-64 years. The most common reason of self-medication was pain (68%). Most of the respondents (48%) taking analgesics, 45% combination of antibiotics and analgesics. Half of the subjects (42%) were prompted by family members and pharmacists for taking self-medication. In this study, 60% of the respondents didn’t consider self-medication as a good practice but 73% claimed to continue the practice in future.
Conclusion:
In the present study, self-medication practices were high. It was distressing to note that every other patient attending dental department for treatment was indulged in self-medication in the past or present and the most disturbing findings were the high prevalence among educated people. Analgesics were the most common drugs abused for self-medication. Among the reasons of self-medication, toothache was the most common one.
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