Practices, awareness and attitudes toward self-medication of analgesics among health sciences students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Background: Self-medication is a common practice among health sciences students in Saudi Arabia. It is known that inappropriate selfmedication may harm individuals due to increasing the risk of drug misuse or delaying a hospital visit by masking some symptoms. Thus, the aim of our study is to invest...

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Main Authors: Mohammed Al Essa, Abdulmajeed Alshehri, Mohammed Alzahrani, Rami Bustami, Shazia Adnan, Atheer Alkeraidees, Amjad Mudshil, Jawaher Gramish
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-02-01
Series:Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319016418305656