A Study to Identify the Extent of Use and to Assess the Effectiveness of Pamphlet on Knowledge Regarding Over the Counter Drugs Among the Adult Population of Selected Area of Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh
Jincy Abraham
M.Sc. Nursing Final Year, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, P.G. College of Nursing, Bhilai, India
Abhilekha Biswal
Principal P.G. College of Nursing, Bhilai, India
G. Hemavati
HoD, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, P.G. College of Nursing, Bhilai, India
Sreemini Pillai
Professor, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, P.G. College of Nursing, Bhilai, India
ABSTRACT:
Over-the-counter medicine is also known as OTC or nonprescription medicine. All these terms refer to medicine that you can buy without a prescription. OTC drugs enable people to relieve many annoying symptoms and to cure some diseases simply and without the cost of seeing a doctor. However, safe use of these drugs requires knowledge, common sense, and responsibility. Paragati rathod et al., (2023) in their study found that common ailments for which self-medication was used frequently were fever, body aches, common cold, and cough Self-medication without medical guidance can lead to inappropriate, incorrect, or undue therapy, missed diagnosis, delays in appropriate treatment, pathogen resistance, and increased morbidity. Aim: The present study aims to identify extent of use and to assess knowledge regarding over the counter drugs among adult population. Setting and Design: The quantitative research approach with pre-experimental one group pre-test and post-test research design was adopted for the study. The study focused on the adult population from selected area of Ambikapur (C.G.) Material and methods: Totally 60 adults between age 25-55 years were enumerated from selected area of Ambikapur (C.G.) after obtaining informed consent. Data was collected using self-structured checklist (forced choice yes and no checklist) to assess extent of use of OTC drug and self-structured questionnaire to assess effectiveness of pamphlet on knowledge regarding OTC drugs. Result: As the present study aim was to assess extent of use of OTC drugs so, it was found that majority 37(61.6%) subjects were low consumers, 19(31.6%) subjects were moderate consumers and 4(6.6%) subjects were high consumers of OTC drugs. And also aimed to assess effectiveness of pamphlet in improving the level of knowledge regarding OTC drugs in which pre-test knowledge among 60 subjects, 17(28.3%) subjects have very good knowledge, 35(58.33%) subjects have good knowledge and 8(13.33%) subjects have poor knowledge regarding OTC drugs. However, in post-test, knowledge was increased significantly 32(53.3%) subjects have good knowledge and 28(46.6%) subjects had very good knowledge. And pre-test mean is 9.26, mean percentage is 66.19% while in post-test mean is 10.68, mean percentage is 76.31. The standard deviation of pre-test is 2.21 and post-test is 1.54. It indicates that there is significant gain in knowledge in post-test after administration of pamphlet since the calculated “t” value is 4.00 is greater than the table value 3.46 at p<0.001 level of significance. There is significant association between pre-test knowledge regarding OTC drugs among adult population with selected socio-demographic variables using a non-parametric test. The calculated chi square value for gender and age is 9.46 and 16.54 which was higher than table value 5.99 and 9.49.
Published in: International Journal of Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Topics (Volume 5, Issue 12, December 2024)
Page(s): 1-4
Date of Publication: 20/12/2024
Publisher: IJRAMT
Cite as: Jincy Abraham, Abhilekha Biswal, G. Hemavati, Sreemini Pillai, “A Study to Identify the Extent of Use and to Assess the Effectiveness of Pamphlet on Knowledge Regarding Over the Counter Drugs Among the Adult Population of Selected Area of Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh,” in International Journal of Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Topics, vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 1-4, December 2024.