Self Medication

01/01/2020 - "54.16% of the students revealed that self-medication provides quick relief from pain. "
07/01/2021 - "IMS effectively relieved anticancer drug-induced OM pain and may be useful for immediate self-medication."
05/01/2022 - "A standardized questionnaire was used to collect the study variables before the TMD treatment: self-medication history, TMD pain intensity, sex, age, ethnicity, marital status, schooling and socioeconomic levels. "
01/01/2021 - "Based on existing studies of pain self-medication, we expected DOMS-related increases in alcohol demand would be greatest in men. "
07/01/2020 - "The study is based on the consultation of scientific articles from international databases-PubMed and ProQuest, the main keywords in the search being pain and self-medication, to which a stigma or public health is sequentially added. "

03/01/2022 - "A high frequency of self-medication before hospital admission was observed in Peruvian patients with COVID-19, mainly of drugs without proven efficacy."
01/01/2021 - "In Togo, where four in five people practice self-medication, the absence of a cure for COVID-19 and the constant progression of the disease requires an assessment of self-medication patterns in the context of the pandemic. "
01/01/2024 - "This study was conducted to assess the perception and practices of self-medication among health science students during the background of the COVID-19 pandemic. "
06/01/2023 - "This study aimed to examine the behavioral response of the community with regard to self-medication during the COVID-19 pandemic in the eastern region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. "
01/01/2023 - "Databases (PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, EBSCO host, and Web of Science) were searched for published studies on the practice of self-medication in COVID-19 pandemic without restriction in population and location. "

10/01/2015 - "The self-medication hypothesis assumes that symptoms related to potential monoaminergic deficits in depression may be relieved by drug abuse. "
01/01/2013 - "Symptoms of comorbidity or depression are frequently relieved through self-medication and substance abuse, thus increasing patient health and suicide risk. "
04/01/2004 - "One explanation for this phenomenon is the 'self-medication hypothesis', which states that some patients experience improvement in psychiatric symptoms as a result of substance use. "
03/01/2023 - "Depression and Substance Use as Consequences of Exposure to Family Violence: A Moderation Mediation and Self-Medication Hypothesis Study."
05/24/2022 - "Perceived stigma, substance use and self-medication in night-shift healthcare workers: a qualitative study."

04/01/1999 - "Important aims of the study were to investigate whether an educational program (the 'Asthma School') directed by a nurse led to improved knowledge of the disease, to improved self-medication and self-management and to improved, self-rated, functional status. "
05/01/2014 - "Education provides a significant improvement in asthma control and HRQoL while managing illiterate asthma patients, additionally the pictorial asthma action plan can be a helpful tool for self-medication."
02/01/1995 - "A prospective controlled trial of home monitoring of peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) was conducted to determine the usefulness of an objective measure of lung function in association with an education program and a medication self-management plan in reducing morbidity in adult patients with asthma. "
08/26/2023 - "The aim is also to explore associations among anxiety, depression, beliefs of medication, self-efficacy, and HRQoL among individuals with severe and other asthma as well as those with no asthma. "
01/01/2023 - "The individual domain included influences (e.g., weight status, psychological and physical challenges, asthma triggers and symptoms) and behaviors (e.g., taking asthma medications, self-monitoring). "

10/01/2014 - "This study provides first evidence that the complex attention domain of divided attention is improved by smoking, which further substantiates the self-medication hypothesis of smoking in schizophrenia, although this has been shown mainly for sustained and selective attention. "
04/01/2006 - "According to the self-medication hypothesis, schizophrenia patients would abuse psychoactive substances to get a relief from their negative symptoms. "
01/01/2018 - "This study tested the self-medication hypothesis by examining the effects of smoking abstinence and resumption on cognition in patients with schizophrenia. "
01/01/2017 - "Although it has been widely assumed that this reflects self-medication, recent studies suggest that smoking may be a risk factor for schizophrenia. "
08/15/2011 - "Our findings of the present study present new evidence supporting the self-medication hypothesis of self-medication by cigarette smoking in schizophrenia to possibly ameliorate pre-existing functional deficits."