Self-medication in nursing students

Norma Beatriz Ríos, Celeste Macarena Arteaga, Yureny González Arias, Aylen Ayelen Martínez, Melina Hitomi Nogawa, Ayelen Macarena Quinteros and Carlos Jesús Canova Barrios

SAP Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, 2024

Abstract: Objective: to determine the prevalence and factors associated with the practice of self-medication among undergraduate nursing students at a private institution in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Methodology: descriptive, quantitative, and cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of 99 nursing students who were administered a self-medication instrument. Results: a total of 99 students aged between 25 and 35 years were interviewed. Most of them were female (82,83 %) and in their first year of study (29,29 %). The prevalence of self-medication was 100 %. Television and social networks were the main sources of information about medicines; the symptoms that motivated self-medication were pain and cold, and consequently the most used medicines were analgesics (82,83 %) and anti-influenza medicines (78,79 %). When asked where they obtained the medicines, 79,80 % obtained them from pharmacies and 48,48 % from relatives. Conclusions: the prevalence of self-medication was high and was mainly related to the availability of economic resources to access medicines and the possibility of buying them at the pharmacy without a prescription. It is necessary to implement activities to guarantee the responsible use of medicines among nursing students.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.56294/ri202471

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