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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Self-medication"”.
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Dietary habits, lifestyle and self-medication in an Italian and Spanish university population.
En los últimos 20 años ha habido un aumento de las tasas de obesidad entre los estudiantes universitarios, por lo que deben ser vistos como un grupo que requiere una atención especial en materia de promoción de la salud. El interés por una alimentación saludable puede conducir a una obsesión …
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Savigyda Vilniuje pagal amžiaus grupes /
… prevalence and factors influencing the choice of self-medication among different age groups in the population of Vilnius city. Tasks of the study. Identify the prevalence of self-medication among the subjects based on various social and demographic factors. Determine the factors influencing the …
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Perfil da automedicação em acadêmicos do curso de farmácia, em uma instituição de ensino superior, no município de João Pessoa-PB.
Self - medication is a common practice, however, may allow health problems in relation to the treatment of diseases, interactions and drug intoxications. Based on this information, a descriptive, quantitative study w as performed, which aimed to examine the perceptions of novice and graduating …
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AN EXPLORATION OF THE PRACTICE OF PRESCRIBING AND USE OF MEDICINES, WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON SELF-MEDICATION PRACTICES IN THE CONTEXT OF DEVELOPING REFORM WITHIN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN KURDISTAN-IRAQ
… factors with an association with the practice of self-medication amongst respondents living within three cities within Kurdistan. The research was designed to be a cross-sectional one by arranging for data collection through the direct interviewing of respondents via the use of a questionnaire …
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Intoxicação medicamentosa: aspectos relevantes da casuística de motivações suicidas.
Among the various forms of self-medication, the most perverse and harmful is represented by the type of poisoning whose serious consequences were generated by suicidal motivations, having the present scholarly article, as the main objective of studying the context and the variables that make this …
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Influência da propaganda de medicamentos sobre o consumo em uma comunidade universitária de João Pessoa-PB
… Exact test when p <0.05. The prevalence of self - medication among these students according to sex was higher among wom en in the freq uencies a t feces (30.15%) and often (19.05%), as well as the motivation to buy drugs also . From the elements that have motivated the purchase of the …
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Antibiotikų vartojimo ypatumai 2003 - 2008 m. Lietuvoje /
… levels were analysed in this study: the self-medication with antibiotics of the population, ambulatory and also hospital antibiotic use. The results showed that wrong perception about antibiotics is characteristic to Lithuanian population, as there is lack of privity, while traditions of …
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Determinants of health care seeking patterns and out-of-pocket expenditure for malaria treatment in Zambia
… malaria treatment and caution on the dangers of self-medication, especially among the male population. Policy makers should also consider training personnel in drug stores on the diagnosis and appropriate treatment of malaria since self-medication is a popular health care option for many …
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Determinants of health care seeking patterns and out-of-pocket expenditure for malaria treatment in Zambia
… malaria treatment and caution on the dangers of self-medication, especially among the male population. Policy makers should also consider training personnel in drug stores on the diagnosis and appropriate treatment of malaria since self-medication is a popular health care option for many …
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Full of empty promises? Exploring what drug use achieves for the individual
… explain drug use, Edward Khantzian's theory of self-medication was chosen to help structure a crossdisciplinary literature search. This facilitated an emphasis on the use of drugs to self-manage physical and emotional states within a social context. It emerged from the search that Khantzian's …
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Evaluation of antimalarial chemotherapeutic practices and outcomes in the southwest region of Nigeria
… although this was often a result of self-medication (50% and 46% respectively). The majority of the people in the rural regions (74% in Lagos and 57% in Osun) preferred non-ACTs, with a high level of self-medication. A strong significant association was found between employment, …
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Shared Responsibility for Medication Use : An Experiment
<p>Medication adherence is an important part of effective therapy for gastrointestinal disease. Theory has suggested that the more involved the individual is in their care the more adherent they will be to their medication regime. However, such management is often complicated by patient …
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Patterns of cannabis use in first-episode psychosis
… of dysphoria’ model<br/>rather than the ‘self-medication’ hypothesis. It is not known how the level of<br/>motivation to change cannabis use can affect patients’ actual use. Lack of<br/>validated readiness to change questionnaires for use with psychotic populations<br/>makes it essential …
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Posttraumatic Substance Use Disorders (PTSUD): Perceived Causal Relations between Trauma-Related Symptoms and Substance Use Disorders
… Study results are considered in respect to the self-medication, high-risk and susceptibility hypotheses associating PTSD-SUD comorbidity.
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Do Rats Consume Ethanol to Regulate a Negative Emotion Induced by a Successive Negative Contrast Procedure?
<p>According to the self-medication hypothesis, individuals may consume drugs or alcohol, or engage in other behaviors in order to reduce a negative emotional state (Khantzian, 1985; Gross, 2013; Crum et al., 2013). Rats experiencing a negative state induced by various stressors (Bertholomey et …
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Being my true self: An existential phenomenological inquiry into how transition influences identity in trans men
… and related anxiety and depression, include self-medication and counselling. There has been little research into the lived experience of trans male gender transition, specifically in the area of identity and the self. This research investigated how transition influences identity in trans men. …
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A comparative analysis of the medicine use and exposures in infants who are HIV exposed uninfected and HIV unexposed uninfected in the first year in Cape Town, South Africa
… in infants, the administration and monitoring of medications in infants who are HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU), a growing population, remains poorly studied. This study aimed to describe and compare medication consumption patterns, including immunization coverage, between infants who are HEU and …
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Using music to manage pain: A content analysis of survey responses from unhoused adults with substance use disorder
… management can be pharmacological (prescription medication), non-pharmacological (therapies, including music therapy), and through self-medication (alcohol, illegal drugs, and illegal substances). Pain-relieving substances – including opioids and alcohol – stimulate reward systems in the brain, …
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Nutrition modulates the interaction between the bacterium Xenorhadbus nematophila and its lepidopteran host Spodoptera littoralis
… results allude to a greater significance for the self-medication behaviour displayed by S. littoralis during infection.
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Informing indicated prevention: factors associated with the development of problematic cannabis use in young people
… and the over-instrumentalization of use as a self-medication, coping mechanism may be associated with the development of problematic use outcomes. These findings are contextualised within the current cultural and political environments in the United Kingdom and discussed in regards to their …
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