Self ? Medication With Analgesics Among Nursing Students For Pain Management

Number: 1 March 1, 2020
  • Seher Ünver
  • Remziye Semerci
  • Zeynep Kızılcık Özkan
  • İlker Murat Avcıbaşı
  • Seda Aral
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Self ? Medication With Analgesics Among Nursing Students For Pain Management

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the status of nursing students regarding self - medication with analgesics for pain management. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in the nursing department of a university in Turkey between May 12th - 27th 2016. For the data collection, a form was used that included questions about the individual characteristics of the students as well as the status of self - medication with analgesics. Descriptive analysis, chi-square test and independent samples t-test were used for data analyzing. Statistically significant differences were expressed at the 95 percent level of confidence p < .05 . Results: Among 398 nursing students, 199 of them 50% reported using analgesics for pain management during the last 30 days and self - medication with analgesics rate among students was 61.8% n = 123 . The main reason for self - medication was a previous analgesic experience.Conclusion: This study showed a critically high rate of self - medication with analgesics without a prescription among nursing students. There is a need to raise awareness of nursing students about the disadvantages of self medication to provide safe analgesic use

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Seher Ünver

Remziye Semerci

Zeynep Kızılcık Özkan

İlker Murat Avcıbaşı

Seda Aral

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March 1, 2020

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Year 2020 Number: 1

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Ünver S, Semerci R, Özkan ZK, Avcıbaşı İM, Aral S (March 1, 2020) Self ? Medication With Analgesics Among Nursing Students For Pain Management. Acıbadem Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi 1 154–159.