Date of Completion

2021

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy

Keywords

Self Medication, Nonprescription Drugs, Analgesics

Abstract

A quantitative cross-sectional survey research design was used. A questionnaire survey from a similar study was adapted and used to gather data. The questionnaire shall be given to the 1st-3rd year students of the DLSMHSI, through the use of social networking sites (e.g., messenger/Facebook, Gmail, etc.). The participants will be chosen by random sampling and will be given in the form of an online survey using google forms. 127 students ranging from 1st year to 3rd-year level, will be randomly selected to participate in the study. The survey was able to obtain and analyze 128 responses from students of the College of Pharmacy from the first-year level to the third-year level. Descriptive statistics are used throughout the sections of the questionnaire in which the Mean, Standard deviation, the Frequency distribution is presented using a cross tabulation table later subjected to Analysis of Variance. The findings from the results indicate that the relationship between the sociodemographic determinants of the participants and their knowledge is significant towards the use of OTC analgesics as well as when it comes to attitude. In addition, the relationship between the participants’ knowledge and their attitude in self medication appears to be highly significant. Further on this, the effects of the pharmacy students’ knowledge and attitude towards their practice of self-medication are highly significant, making them more confident in doing so while remaining cautious in practicing self-medication. All year levels are equally aware of the side effects and consequences of analgesic use and there’s a significant relationship between awareness and practice. The results present a high prevalence of self-medication which can be connected to the relatively high confidence of the pharmacy students regarding such OTC medicine.

First Advisor

Karen Navarro

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