{"id":4276,"date":"2023-07-11T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:48:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:48:58","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2020-31-1-106-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2020-31-1-106-118\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2020) 31 (1) 106 – 118"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Self-Medication Practice among the Elderly Attending Primary Healthcare Centers in Lagos<\/b><\/p>

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* Babatunde A. Akodu , Ekanem O. Asuquo , Oluchi J Kanma- Okafor , Aisha T Bakre\u00a0Ekomobong I Essiet<\/span><\/p>

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Department of Community Health and Primary Care, College Of Medicine, University of Lagos<\/p>

PMB 12003 Lagos, Nigeria<\/p>

Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton,\u00a0Wv1 1DT, UK.<\/span><\/p>

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Corresponding Author: Babatunde A. Akodu<\/p>

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Background:<\/b> There is a high incidence of self-medication with over-the-counter, complementary and prescription medicines in various localities. In order to use a non-prescription drug safely and with good results, the patients, <\/span>specifically the elderly, need information such as, how to precisely identify symptoms and possible side effects of <\/span>the medicine. Drug related problems are reported to be a contributing cause of hospitalizations in people over age <\/span>fifty. The elderly are a neglected and vulnerable group that attention must be paid to in view of our ageing <\/span>population. Data on self-medication practices in Nigeria, especially in the elderly population, are necessary to help <\/span>with the planning of interventions and to improve on self-medication of medicines within this population.<\/span><\/p>\n

Objective:<\/b> This study was aimed at determining self-medication practice among elderly in Primary healthcare centers (PHCs) in selected Lagos state local government areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Methods:<\/b> The study was a descriptive cross-sectional survey that consisted of 300 elderly participants visiting the PHCs at the selected local government areas (LGAs) of Lagos State. Categorical and continuous data were analyzed <\/span>using SPSS VERSION 23.Chi square test was used to determine association between socio-demographic <\/span>characteristics and knowledge of medicines and self-medication practice and a p-value less than 0.05 was <\/span>considered statistically significant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Results:<\/b> The prevalence of self-medication was 62.3%. The commonest reasons for self-medication were time constraints [100%], the most common drugs used for self-medication were analgesics [100%], Antibiotics [82.0%], <\/span>antimalarials [82.0%], there was a significant association between knowledge and educational level [p= 0.003], <\/span>marital status [0.016], occupation [<0.001] and medical insurance [p=0.001]. There was also a statistically <\/span>significant association between self-medication practice and age [p= 0.027], occupation [p< 0.001], marital status <\/span>[p< 0.001], education [p< 0.001], health insurance [p= 0.004].<\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusion:<\/b> Considering the patterns and high prevalence of self-medication among the elderly in this study, enforcing the restriction of not selling prescription medicines over the counter and increasing the intensity of <\/span>educational programs for the elderly to further understand the risks and potential harmful effects associated with <\/span>self-medication is of paramount importance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keywords:<\/b> Drug use, Self-medication, elderly, Primary healthcare centers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Self-Medication Practice among the Elderly Attending Primary Healthcare Centers in Lagos \u00a0 * Babatunde A. Akodu , Ekanem O. Asuquo , Oluchi J Kanma- Okafor , Aisha T Bakre\u00a0Ekomobong I Essiet \u00a0 Department of Community Health and Primary Care, College Of Medicine, University of Lagos PMB 12003 Lagos, Nigeria Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4282,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}