Self-medication practices among senior students attending bachelor of medicine and surgery at Kampala International University Western Campus, Uganda
| dc.contributor.author | Ruzindana, David Cozens | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-23T09:22:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-11-23T09:22:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-09 | |
| dc.description | A research report submitted to the Faculty of Clinical Medicine and Dentistry in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of Kampala International University | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This study assessed self-medication practices among senior medical students of Kampala International University teaching Hospital. Facility based cross-sectional study was conducted among senior medical students selected using stratified random sampling technique. Sample size was calculated to be 294. Data was collected and entered in to Epi-info version 3.6 and analyzed using SPSS version 20. Descriptive statistics was employed. Statistical significance was declared at p-value<0.05. The findings indicated that 90% of the respondents utilize self-medication and 60% of them practice self-medication for headache/ fever. And painkillers were the most widely used type of medicine. The major reason the respondents practice self-medication was found to be mild illness. In the multivariate analysis, it was concluded that age and sex were associated with self-medication practice. It was recommended that there is a need to reevaluate drug and health policies of the country and formulate rules and regulations regarding drug use | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12306/4326 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Kampala International University, School of Health Sciences | en_US |
| dc.subject | Self-medication practices | en_US |
| dc.subject | Students | en_US |
| dc.subject | Kampala International University Western Campus | en_US |
| dc.title | Self-medication practices among senior students attending bachelor of medicine and surgery at Kampala International University Western Campus, Uganda | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |