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@article{Suthar_Munjani_Mendes_Mendha_Patel_2021, title={Knowledge, attitude and practice of self medication among the staff-members of Charotar University of Science and Technology: Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Self Medication among the Staff-members}, volume={10}, url={https://www.updatepublishing.com/journal/index.php/rip/article/view/6527}, DOI={10.25081/rip.2020.v10.6527}, abstractNote={<p style="text-align: justify;">Self-medication raises its occurrence in many situations in our everyday lives, which is an inappropriate and harmful practice. A research framework was conducted to evaluate the awareness, attitude and practice of self-medication among the CHARUSAT University staff members. Among the staff members, a pre-validated questionnaire was circulated. Using Microsoft Excel, information was gathered and evaluated and the results were represented as numbers and percentages. A total of 136 staff-members voluntarily took part in the study. We found that source of information of the drugs used for self-medication were “previous prescription (77.7%)” and the source of drugs was “medical store (78.8%)”. Only (34.3%) staff-members accepted the fact that they always visited a qualified practitioner whenever they got sick. Most of the staff-members took self-medication for headache (73.5%) followed by cough, cold, sore throat (73.5%) and fever (56.6%). Out of total 136 staff-members, most of them took Analgesics (61.8%) as self-medication followed by lozenges (66.2%). For almost 66.9 % of university staff members, self-medication was common. They provided a reason that “no need to visit a doctor for minor illnesses”. 73.5 % of the population has taken cough and cold preparations as self-medication.</p>}, journal={Research in Pharmacy}, author={Suthar, Jalpa and Munjani, Jeet and Mendes, Carissa and Mendha, Tatvee and Patel, Bansari}, year={2021}, month={Jan.}, pages={6–10} }