Community awareness and using drugs without physician's prescription, ( Egypt - Yemen) | ||
| Merit Medical Journal | ||
| Volume 2, Issue 3, July 2025, Pages 50-60 PDF (432.62 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mermj.2025.410768.1030 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Asmaa Mohamed Ahmed Soliman1; Eman Abbas Abdelaal* 2; Abdelshafy Gadelkareim Abdelshafy3; Abdelhamed Ghaleb Abdelmawgoud4; Mahmoud Elsayed Mohamed4; Ahmed Eid Abdel lateif4 | ||
| 1Public health and community medicine department, faculty of medicine, Assiut, Merit university, Egypt. | ||
| 2merit university egypt | ||
| 3Faculty of Medicine Merit University | ||
| 4Medicine, Merit University Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background:Self medication is a global health issue that is expanding among populations worldwide. more prevalent in developing countries. Egypt has the highest. associated with serious events as antimicrobial drug resistance. Aim: determine magnitude and factors related to use of drugs without physician's prescription & study knowledge, attitude, practice of population regarding use of drugs without physician's prescription. Methods: A cross-sectional included 804 persons from two countries, egypt and yemen. Online and/or paper surveys conducted from 6march2024 to 25march2024 among Egyptians and Yemens. It was designed as a self administered Google Form. Results: There was statistically significant difference between positive attitude and age < 30 yrs old(P-value=0.026), University, postgraduate students(P-value= 0.000), Urban(P= 0.005), enough monthly income(P-value=0.000), Occupation as Student(P-value= 0.001), negative attitude& Egyptians (P-value= 0.000).There was statistically significant difference between practice level (poor) and University&postgraduate students (P-value= 0.000), Egyptians, ( fair )(P-value= 0.001), Urban, (good) (P= 0.002) and occupation as student, (poor) (P-value=0.002). Conclusion: Most of the population used drugs without a physician prescription. The majority of participants had poor knowledge, practice and good attitude. Factors associated with good knowledge were, females age less than 30, From Yemen and urban area, enough & save economic level, being students. Factors associated with positive attitude & age less than30, university students from Yemen and urban area, enough monthly income, being students. Factors associated with poor practice university, post graduate, urban areas. From Egypt (fair level) and being student (good level). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| self medication; drugs without prescription; community awareness | ||
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