Prevalence, Attitude and Knowledge of Self Medication during Covid-19 Disease Pandemic

Aim: To determine the prevalence, attitude, and knowledge of self-medication general population for prevention coronavirus during COVID 19 pandemic. Place duration study: Major studies Punjab 2020. Methodology: A self-generated questionnaire was distributed online amongst excluding people using medication any other chronic medical disorder. The study included public including age group from 16-60 years. Results: Among 290 participants, 33.7% were males 66.3% female. Based on data obtained 53% used without a doctor’s prescription (self- medication) while 46.7% took with prescription. Those habit relied both allopathic herbal medications due to various reasons, most frequent reason found unavailability doctors (27.8%). frequently self-medicated drugs pain killers, Hydroxychloroquinone, Azithromycin Ivermectin prevent this deadly virus (p-value=0.000).Adverse effects reported after self-medications are statistically non-significant. Conclusion It is concluded that majority in self-medicating themselves because difficulty approaching physicians commonly drug or symptoms be tablet as preventive measure Keywords: COVID-19, self-medication, adverse