CONTEXT Despite concerns about drug safety, current information on older adults' use of prescription and over-the-counter medications and dietary supplements is limited. OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence and patterns of medication use among older adults (including concurrent use), and potential major drug-drug interactions. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Three thousand five community-...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine how often children and adolescents share prescription medications and, because of teratogenic concerns, assess specific reasons why girls might engage in medication-sharing behaviors. METHODS Data were collected as part of Youthstyles, a mail survey of children and adolescents 9 through 18 years of age (764 girls and 804 boys) about healt...

UNLABELLED Little is known about whether patients with chronic pain treated with opioids experience craving for their medications, whether contextual cues may influence craving, or if there is a relationship between craving and medication compliance. We hypothesized that craving for prescription opioids would be significantly correlated with the urge for more medication, preoccupation with the ...

Background: Self-medication is a growing public health concern in developing and developed countries. Objective: This study was designed to assess the prevalence of self-medication practice among undergraduate science students determine its concomitant factors. Methods: conducted May 2021 studying at Catholic University Health Allied Sciences (CUHAS) Mwanza, Tanzania. An analytical cross-sectio...

Background Self-medication is recognized as an effective form of treatment and increasingly encouraged to treat minor illnesses. However, misuse self-medication leaves devastating impacts on human health causes antimicrobial resistance. Using medication without a prescription among farmers could cause more severe effects their than non-farm workers since they suffer from several occupational ha...

Self-medication as part of the irrational use of antibiotics contributes to the spread of antimicrobial resistance. The aim of this community-based survey in Macedonia was to determine public knowledge, beliefs and self-medication with antibiotics for upper respiratory infections. A cross-sectional study was conducted in three administrative regions in Macedonia in April 2012. 402 eligible part...