Department of Pharmacognosy, Maharaja Agarsen School of Pharmacy, Maharaja Agarsen University, Baddi, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India
Publications
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Research Article
Self-Medication: A Comparative Study of Medication Practice between Some Urban and Rural Working Professional at Shimla Hills Area
Author(s): Deepika Dutta*, Arvind Kumar, Preeti Avasthi and Monika Rana
Abstract
Self-Medication practice is known as using multiple Over-The-Counter (OTC)
drugs to treat your symptoms without physician aid, it is continuously increasing
due to unawareness of health care system. Most OTC drugs are usually
categorized into pain relievers, cough remedies, anti-allergens, laxatives,
vitamins, antacids etc. This study was a community-based, cross-sectional
survey carried out in some rural and urban area of Shimla Hills, Himachal
Pradesh. To explore self-medication behavior among the general population, a
direct interviews with respondents using a previously prepared questionnaire was
done. In this study 300 (both male and female) respondents were investigated
with age band of 20-60 years, study revealed that males were more prone towards self-medication practice than females. Fever, common cough and cold
were the major class of disease as..
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