Self-medication practices and risk factors for self-medication among medical students in Belgrade, Serbia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Lukovic, Jasminka Adzic ^a   Miletic, Vladimir ^b   Pekmezovic, Tatjana ^a   Trajkovic, Goran ^a   Ratkovic, Nevena ^c   Aleksic, Danijela ^c   Grgurevic, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Institute for Mental Health   (Serbia)

^c CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MINERAL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT; VITAMIN;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHARMACY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 9; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF MEDICATION; SERBIA; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SELF MEDICATION; SERBIA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84916888232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114644     Document Type: Article

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