Study of self-drug administration among MBBS professional medical students

Abstract

Background: Self-medication involves obtaining medicines using old prescriptions to purchase medicines or without a prescription, sharing medicines among each other or using leftover medicines from previous illness. The present study was conducted to assess self-drug administration among MBBS professional medical students. Material and methods: The study was conducted among 130 students from first, second and final year MBBS. All selected students were asked o fill the details of questionnaire. The questionnaire was in two parts. The first part contained questions on demographic information. Socio-economic variables were covered in second part of questionnaire. The data were recorded in MS excel and analyzed using Graph pad prism version 6. Results: In the present study total participants were 130 in which, 56.15% were male and 43.84% were female. In first year 65.90% were male and 34.09% were female, while in second 46.93% were male and 53.06% were female. Likewise in final year 56.15% and 43.84% were male and female respectively. Maximum participants were of age group 18-20 yrs(43.84%). In first and second year maximum participants were of age group 18-20yrs. In final year maximum participants were of age group 24-26yrs. Likewise in final year 56.15% and 43.84% were male and female respectively. Maximum students takes self-medication for headache all groups. Maximum students takes Tablet paracetamol as self-medication. Conclusion: The present study concluded that Self-medication had been widely practiced among medical students.