Automedicación y factores asociados durante la pandemia por Covid_19 en estudiantes de la Carrera de Medicina

Self-medication is a practice commonly used for the maintenance of health, through preventive and symptomatic treatment of an illness in an indiscriminate and voluntary manner, with the appearance of the Covid-19 pandemic, the recurrence of this practice by the population was triggered; the main objective of this study was to determine the factors associated with self- medication during the Covid-19 pandemic in students of the School of Human Health. It was a descriptive-correlational study of non-experimental and cross-sectional design; 186 students were surveyed and a virtual questionnaire validated in a sample of similar characteristics was applied. As results, 59.1% of the population self-medicated, the population was mostly women (63.4%) and the age from 18 to 21 years (71%); a higher frequency in the use of alternative medicine with 21.6% and analgesics with 21. This practice was carried out as preventive treatment in 37.3% of the cases and 31.8% as symptomatic treatment, 66.4% of those who self- medicate use drugs without medical prescription and 95.5% assume to know the risks of self- medication, the most treated symptoms are flu (20%), headache (15.6%) and sore throat (13.6%), so it is concluded that sociocultural factors are associated with self-medication during the COVID-19 pandemic in the study.

• Autor Principal: Prieto García, Guissella Dayanna (author)
• Formato: bachelorThesis
• Idioma: spa
• Publicado: 2023
• Subjects: COVID-19; AUTOMEDICACIÓN
• Acceso en liña: https://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/28382