فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Background: The prevalence of self‑medication is high all over the world, especially in Iran.But there is a paucity of studies to explore self‑medication activities among the universitystudents. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to determine the self‑medicationamong student in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, based on Health BeliefModel (HBM). Materials and Methods: This cross‑sectional study was conducted in 197medical students of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences who were randomly chosen bya stratified random sampling method in 2009. The data were collected using a validatedand reliable questionnaire based on HBM. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSSsoftware (ver. 16). Descriptive and analytical statistics (independent t‑test and test) were used.A two-tailed P value lower than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Themean and standard deviation of participants’ age was 22.00 ± 2.77 years. 67.3% of the sampleconsisted of females. The mean scores of knowledge, perceived susceptibility, perceivedseverity, perceived benefits, and perceived barrier were 80.36 ± 18.29, 40.92 ± 13.89,61.48 ± 19.03, 59.11 ± 18.46, and 30.36 ± 12.40, respectively. According to the results,84.98% of students had experienced self‑medication at least for one disease during thepast 6 months. Conclusions: The prevalence of self‑medication in medical students is highand we can consider it as a health problem. So, we need educational interventions for thestudents, using HBM constructs.