Self-medication during Covid-19 pandemic: challenges and opportunities

M Malik, MJ Tahir, R Jabbar, A Ahmed… - Drugs & Therapy …, 2020 - Springer
Conclusion SM has become an essential area within healthcare, but the provision of SM is
an overall major global concern, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. SM may …

Self-medication practices to prevent or manage COVID-19: A systematic review

A Quincho-Lopez, CA Benites-Ibarra… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Previous studies have assessed the prevalence and characteristics of self-
medication in COVID-19. However, no systematic review has summarized their findings …

Automedicación en época de pandemia: Covid-19

PJ Navarrete-Mejía, JC Velasco-Guerrero… - Revista del Cuerpo …, 2020 - scielo.org.pe
Automedicación en época de pandemia: Covid-19 SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online
vol.13 número4 2020: El primer año de la pandemia - ¿Qué hemos aprendido del …

Use of complementary and alternative medicine in general population during COVID-19 outbreak: A survey in Iran

M Dehghan, A Ghanbari, FG Heidari… - Journal of integrative …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective Some epidemic diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have
caused many physical, psychological, and social challenges, despite the existence of …

Risk factors associated with self-medication among women in Iran

M Karimy, M Rezaee-Momtaz, M Tavousi, A Montazeri… - BMC public health, 2019 - Springer
Background Self-medication is a public health concern that may create several problems
such as increase in drug resistance, raise in drug use per capita, and creating side effects …

[PDF][PDF] Prevalence of self-medication in university students: systematic review and meta-analysis

M Behzadifar, M Behzadifar, A Aryankhesal… - … Mediterr Health J, 2020 - apps.who.int
Background: Self-medication can lead to serious consequences but its overall prevalence in
students is not known. Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of self …

[PDF][PDF] A systematic review of the literature on survey questionnaires to assess self-medication practices

D Limaye, V Limaye, G Krause… - … Medicine and Public …, 2017 - serwiss.bib.hs-hannover.de
Self-medication is of great public health importance as it often bypasses regulatory
mechanisms to assure quality of health care. Nevertheless there are no established …

[HTML][HTML] The scenario of self-medication practices during the covid-19 pandemic; a systematic review

AB Shrestha, M Aryal, JR Magar, S Shrestha… - Annals of Medicine and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Self-medication association with an ongoing pandemic is evident in the studies
conducted throughout the world. To summarize the findings of previous papers, we carried …

Medicine storage, wastage, and associated determinants among urban households: a systematic review and meta-analysis of household surveys

A Jafarzadeh, A Mahboub-Ahari, M Najafi, M Yousefi… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Irrational household storage of medicines is a world-wide problem, which
triggers medicine wastage as well as its associated harms. This study aimed to include all …

Self-medication practice and associated factors among pregnant women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

KGM Beyene, SW Beza - Tropical medicine and health, 2018 - Springer
Background Self-medication which is the act of obtaining and using one or more medicines
without medical supervision is a common practice among pregnant women. Unless proper …