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

• Main Authors: Mohammed Al Essa (Author), Abdulmajeed Alshehri (Author), Mohammed Alzahrani (Author), Rami Bustami (Author), Shazia Adnan (Author), Atheer Alkeraidees (Author), Amjad Mudshil (Author), Jawaher Gramish (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...