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Self-Medication of Drugs in Nursing Students from Castile and Leon (Spain)
Autor
Facultad/Centro
Área de conocimiento
Título de la revista
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Número de la revista
4
Editor
MDPI
Fecha
2021
Resumo
To determine the prevalence of self-medication in nursing students and their related
factors, a transversal, descriptive study was performed on a sample of 378 nursing students. A
total of 73.8% of the sample declared having used off-prescription drugs during the last month
(2.84;2.26–3.58). A total of 28.9% said they did this because they are familiar with the health problem
and its pharmacological solution and 25% deemed that it was a mild health problem. Drugs most
commonly used off-prescription were analgesics in 88.91% (3.63;2.74–4.80) of occasions. They were
mainly recommended by the students’ family (1.31;1.03–1.65) on 58.12% of the cases. Students keep
analgesics they take off-prescription in their home first aid kit (4.47;3.28–6.08; p < 0.001). Unlike other
studies, 53.2% obtained off-prescription drugs from the home first aid kit (1.13;0.89–1.43; p < 0.001).
In addition, they gave advice and recommend drugs they have taken to other people with similar
symptoms (1.97;1.59–2.44). A total of 85.72% kept excess drugs after a treatment (6.00;4.50–7.99).
Self-medication is related to the storage of unused medicines and giving advice on the use of drugs to
other people, among other things. Self-medication of drugs among nursing students is high. Thus, it
appears necessary to review the training on rational the use of drugs and responsible self-medication
in the discipline’s curriculum.
Keywords: education; nursing students; prevalence; related factors; responsible self-medication;
self-prescription
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