Yousef Shafaeei|Gholamreza Sharifirad|Kamran Ali|Siamak Mohebi
Associations between self-medication, health literacy, and self-perceived health status: A community-based study
Iran University of Medical Sciences|Qom University of Medical Science and Health Services|Ardabil University of Medical Sciences|Qom University of Medical Science and Health Services
although frequency selfmedication welldocumented public health literature study examined relationship health literacy selfmedication yet study aimed investigating relationship health literacy selfmedication communitybased studythis crosssectional study conducted 924 adults survey association health literacy selfmedication among peoples ardabil city 2014 selected using multistage random sampling method health literacy measured test functional health literacy adults general health status measured 12item general health questionnaire selfreported selfmedication overall sedative antibiotic herbal last 3 months assessed statistical analysis performed using spss version 18 p 005 considered significantthe mean age weight respondents 37 years 747 kg respectively prevalence selfmedication 616 percentage selfadministering antibiotics sedative herbal medicines 40 544 591 last 3 months respectively significant relationship found total health literacy general health status selfmedication prevalence selfmedication among participants poor poor selfrated physical mental health significantly higher participants p 0001selfmedication significant relationship health literacy health status therefore design implementation training programs necessary increase perception risk selfmedication