Self-medication and the 'infodemic' during mandatory preventive isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic

• Main Authors: Andrés Gaviria-Mendoza (Author), Danny Alberto Mejía-Mazo (Author), Carolina Duarte-Blandón (Author), Juan Daniel Castrillón-Spitia (Author), Manuel Enrique Machado-Duque (Author), Luis Fernando Valladales-Restrepo (Author), Jorge Enrique Machado-Alba (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Aim: Quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic altered the supply and demand of health services. This, together with the 'infodemic' and generalized panic, could alter the patterns of self-medication in the population. The objective was to characterize the patterns of self-medication in four...