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The scenario of self-medication practices during the covid-19 pandemic; a systematic review
Annals of Medicine and Surgery, 2022 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 out a systematic review to observe the current scenario of self-medication ...
A. Shrestha +5 more
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Prevalence of self-medication during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Background The COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on travel and quarantine measures made people turn to self-medication (SM) to control the symptoms of their diseases. Different studies were conducted worldwide on different populations, and their results
Golnesa Kazemioula +5 more
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Self-medication practices to prevent or manage COVID-19: A systematic review
PLoS ONE, 2021 Background Previous studies have assessed the prevalence and characteristics of self-medication in COVID-19. However, no systematic review has summarized their findings.
Alvaro Quincho-Lopez +4 more
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Antibiotics, 2022 It has been suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in self-medication practices across the world. Yet, there is no up-to-date synthesized evidence on the prevalence of self-medication that is attributable to the pandemic.
O. Ayosanmi +7 more
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Annals of Medicine and Surgery, 2022 Self-medication is the use of drugs to treat self-diagnosed ailments without the use of a formal prescription. Self-medication is defined by the World Health Organization as the use of medications to address self-diagnosed diseases or symptoms.
Ishita Ray +9 more
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Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2021 Background Globally, self-medication is a common practice, and an increasingly perceived necessity to relieve burdens on health services. However, inappropriate self-medication may result to reduced health outcomes, increased antimicrobial resistance and
W. Akande-Sholabi +2 more
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Antibiotics, 2021 Self-medication with antibiotics is a major contributing factor to antimicrobial resistance. Prior research examining factors associated with antibiotic self-medication has focused on an individual’s knowledge about antibiotics, antibiotic usage ...
A. Zhang +5 more
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Self-medication among pregnant women in Ghana: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Heliyon, 2022 Background: Despite the associated health risks of self-medication during pregnancy, recent evidence suggests that the phenomena persist in most countries.
Richmond Opoku +2 more
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Phytotherapy in zoo animals [PDF]
, 2015 Phytotherapy is one of the oldest medical disciplines and was traditionally based on empiricism (Reichling et al., 2008). Nowadays, its use as an additional integral component of evidence based medicine is well accepted in human medicine (Finkelmann ...
Hoby, S., Walkenhorst, M., Wenker, C.
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Heliyon, 2021 The objective of the present study was to assess the perceptions, knowledge, and awareness of self-medication practice among the university students in Nepal.
Krishnandan Shah, S. Halder, Syed Haider
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