TY - JOUR JF - ISMJ JO - Iran South Med J VL - 18 IS - 5 PY - 2015 Y1 - 2015/11/01 TI - Survey on prevalence and causes of self-medication in women referring to health centers in Ahwaz, in 2013 TT - بررسی فراوانی و علل خوددرمانی در زنان مراجعه کننده به مراکز بهداشتی درمانی شهر اهواز سال 92 N2 - Background: Today, considerable advances achieved in different scientific fields have led to an ever-increasing access of people to various medications and their unauthorized consumption, which negatively affects the healthcare and treatment system. Thus, this study was conducted to determine the Prevalence and causes of this phenomenon in the female population of Ahwaz. Material and Methods: In this Cross-sectional study364 Women referring to seven health centers in Ahwaz were selected randomly and based on the family medical file number and by proportional distribution to each center and semi-structured questionnaires were completed through interviews. The data were analyzed by Chi square test and logistic regression. P<0.05 was considered significant. Results: Self-medication was observed in 70.1% of women. The most frequent group was those above the age of 30. The most common self-medication case was urogenitaldisorders (58.7%). there was a significant relation between education (p<0.003) and number of births (p=0.003) and unauthorized drug consumption. The most causes for synthetic drug use were previous illness background (48.6%) and high medication costs (50.6%), and about herbal drugs were high medication costs (41.1%), and the effectiveness of these products about medicinal herbs (38.1 %). Conclusion: High rate of self-medication in the studied society necessitates training on proper use of drugs through the use of social media. SP - 1034 EP - 1044 AU - Afshary, Pourandoght AU - Mohammadi, Solmaz AU - Koshteh, Shosi AU - Pajohideh, Seyedeh Zahra AU - Tabesh, Hamed AD - Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing, University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran KW - self-medication KW - Synthetic Drugs KW - Herbal Drugs KW - Medicinal Herbs KW - women UR - http://ismj.bpums.ac.ir/article-1-737-en.html DO - 10.7508/ismj.1394.05.011 ER -