TY - JOUR AU - Khan, Asma AU - Sultana, Afroza AU - Ahammad, Benzir AU - Nahar, Shamsun AU - Khanam, Shafeya PY - 2019/03/27 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Self-Medication Practice among Medical Students of a Tertiary Teaching Hospital in Dhaka City JF - Journal of Current and Advance Medical Research JA - J Curr Adv Med Res VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.3329/jcamr.v6i1.40780 UR - https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/JCAMR/article/view/40780 SP - 28-31 AB - <p><strong>Background: </strong>Self-medication is a common practice worldwide and the irrational use of drugs is a cause of concern.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This present study was designed to assess the rate of self-medication among the medical students in a tertiary teaching hospital in Dhaka.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in the Department of Pharmacology at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh from October to December 2017 for a period of three (03) months. The participants were briefed about the nature of the study; the consent was taken and a pre‐tested semi‐structured questionnaire was administered to them. The information pertaining to the pattern of self‐medication, indications for self‐medication and drugs used for self‐medication was included in the questionnaire.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>A total of 303 students were included in this study. The rate of self-medication was 100.0%. A larger number of females were self-medicating (81.2%) than males (75.3%). The majority of the students self-medicated because of the illness being too trivial for consultation (43.2%) and previous experience of illness (43.2%). Fever (73.3%) and headache (65%) are the most common cause of self-medication. Antipyretics were most commonly self–medicated by the participants (98%). 45.5% 0f students told that self-medication is not an acceptable practice. 40% of the participants opined that self-medication was a part of self-care.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In conclusion self-medication is widely practiced among students of the institute</p><p>Journal of Current and Advance Medical Research 2019;6(1):28-31</p> ER -