The survey with questionnaire were conducted to grasp the actual. condition of four cautious drugs-antibiotics, sedative hypnotics, minor tranquilizer, analeptics- self-medication behavior through drugstore use and to analyze the primary factors connected with it,
The following six objectives were established.
1) To catch the reason why the man who medicate himself buy four cautious drugs at a drugstore, and to know the choice motive of each drug purchased.
2) To grasp the distribution of four cautious drug taken by the man who medicate himself and to analyze the reason of taking the drug.
3) To find out whether the buyer has taken the same drug past and to know the duration and the frequency.
4) To grasp the degree of recognition about four cautious drugs and the attitude´ toward continuous taking them.
5) To analyze the degree of recognition about the influence on human body and the attitude of medication behavior.
6) To know "the experience of side-effects and to grasp the kind of the side-effects. The data were collected from 15 drugstores with 677 respondents in Seoul from August 17 to September 21, 1987.
The following results were obtained.
1) The reasons for drugstore use were first, "for easy access and convenience" (53.7%) second, "for the silghtness of illness" (19.9%) third "for the cheap price" (13.2%). According to that result, the factor of "the easy access of drugstore" was most influential.
In case of the poor, the factor "for the cheap price "was revealed second (37.3%). And "for the slightness of illness" was second reason in the medically insured (22.9% ), "for the cheap price was second reason in the others (29%) .
2) The kind of drugs purchased were antibiotics (62.8%) , analeptics (17.2%) , minor tranquilizer (13.3%) and sedative hypnotics (6.7%) on the whole.
In teenagers, besides antibiotics the percentage of taking analeptics came second(42.4%) and it was revealed that the percentage of sedative hypnotics, minor tranquilizer increase with age.
But in proportion to the increase of age, the taking of analeptics decreased.
3) The choice motives of each drug purchased were all different.
In case of antibiotics "recommendation of pharmacist" was 39.6%, sedative hypnotics "recommendation of pharmacist" and "my own judgment", 28.9%, respectively, minor tranquilizer "my own judgment", 35.2%, and in case of analeptics "my own judgment" was most common with 53.5%.
4) The reasons for taking drugs were as follows, antibiotics was taken for the inflamma tion mitigation of a wound and a swelling (38. 5%), sedative hypnotics for the removal of insomnia (97.5%) minor tranquilizer because of restlessness and gloominess (39, 3%) , and analeptics for the shortening of sleeping hours (35.1%) .
5) Those experienced in taking four cautious drugs were 78.2% on the average.
It was revealed that antibiotics use duration was "from one week to one month"(38.9%), the frequency was "rarely" (62.1%) , sedative hypnotics and minor tranquilizer : "More than three years", (35.7%, 30.4%), respectively, "Sometimes", (43.8%, 35%), respectively, analeptics; "from one year to three years", (27.6%), "Sometimes", (42.7%).
6) In regard to the source of information in taking drugs, 35.3 percent of male were relied on "recommendation of pharmacist", 32.6 percent of female "my own judgment", There was a difference between below the middle school graduates and over the high school graduates These were relied on "recommendation of pharmacist" first, ~ those "my own judgment" first.
And "my own judgment" was the first source of -specialist (40%)-, labors (41.4%) , sales-man (43.5%) , and jobless men (36.8%) , "recommendation of relatives on friends" was the first source of students (30.4%),´ "recommendation of pharmacist" was the first source of teachers, administrative office workers (39%) and housewives (40. 7%) .
7) The degree of recognition about four cautious drugs was as follows.
"know a little" was (43.0%) , "don´t know" (30.2%) , "know" (26.8%), respectively.
In regard to the attitude toward continuous taking them, it was revealed that "I will take it according to circumstances" was first (56.2%) , " I will not take it as possible" was first (56.2%), "1 don’t know well" (12.9%) , "I will take it continuously" (8.3%).
8) About the influence on human body, "if proper, it is effect" was common attitude toward antibiotics (43. 6%), "Probably bad influence on the health" was first toward the other drugs (46.2%), In terms of the degree of observance to taking time and dose of drugs, "suitably" was first (37.3%), "relatively correctly" second (27%), "correctly" (17%).
9) The percentage of four cautious drugs side-effects was 27.5 on the average.
The kind of side-effects were eruption and urticaria (28.5%), heart acceleration and so forth (25.4%), headache and Giddiness, dyspepsia (23%), respectively.
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