Prior knowledge, older age, and higher allowance are risk factors for self-medication with antibiotics among University students in Southern China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Pan, Hui ^a   Cui, Binglin ^a   Zhang, Dangui ^a   Farrar, Jeremy ^a,b   Law, Frieda ^a   Ba Thein, William ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG INDICATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FEVER; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NOSE CONGESTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; RHINORRHEA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF MEDICATION; SOMNOLENCE; SORE THROAT; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TINNITUS; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VOMITING;

EID: 84864105713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041314     Document Type: Article

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