Over The Counter Drugs

Abstract

A cross sectional survey was undertaken to assess the knowledge on practice of using Over the Counter(OTC) drugs among the study participants age group of 40-80 years in selected community area, Uttrakhand. 100 participants were selected by convenient sampling method and required data were collected from them by using structured opinionnaire. The mean knowledge score of participants regarding knowledge on practice is 13.43 ± 2.90 which is 55. 90% mean percentage. Among each area, the highest 88.50 mean percentage was obtained in the area “Duration of using OTC drugs” and lowest 33.80 mean percentage was obtained in the area “Ill effects and opinion”. Majority (79%) of the of the participants taking advices before consuming OTC drug and in that most (75.9%) of the participants take advices from pharmacist for taking an OTC drug. No statistical significant association was found when knowledge score is compared with age, gender, educational status, occupation and monthly per capita income but a statistical significant association was found in the item how long they are using OTC drugs in daily life.