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Background: Self-medication is becoming a most prevalent practice among educated people across the world. In today’s era, internet and media is one of the most important sources for promoting self-medication practice. Medical students are highly influenced with this practice as their future medical preference and the fact that medical students find themselves having more knowledge about drugs this may lead to irrational usage of drugs. Aim and Objectives of the study were conducted to know the 1. Self-medication practices among medical students 2. Common, indications and reasons for self-medication practice. 3.Attitude of medical students towards self-medication practice.Methods: A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study was conducted among undergraduate medical students of GMERS Medical College Valsad. The study was carried out in the months of October to December 2017. Medical students of first and final year MBBS participated voluntarily in this study after being briefed in detail about the goals & method of the study.Results: In this study, 91.50% of medical students were practiced self-medication. The common indication for self-medication was fever (76.50%) and cough (75.96%). Acquaintances (67.76%) are main source of information for self-medication. Common reasons they know the medicine (78.14%) and previous exposure (64.48%). 12.5% student perceived self-medication is harmless and 21.0% of medical students advise other to take self-medication.Conclusions: It was concluded that more than half of strength of students practice self-medication for various illnesses; the reason might be the awareness of drugs due to easy accessibility of information through books, internet as well as availability of medicine without prescription from pharmacist. So, essential measure should be taken to reduce the practice of self-medication among students to avoid development of drug dependence, resistance and drug interactions.
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Introduction: About 1.4 million people around the world become seriously ill from Health Care Associated Infections at any given time The risk of infection in developing countries is 2 to 20 times higher than in developed countries and its incidence in India ranges from 5-30%. Aims and objectives:To study knowledge and practices regarding hand hygiene among Health Care Providers and to study the factors affecting the hand hygiene adherence Method:Cross sectional study conducted in tertiary care of hospital of Valsad. Prior oral informed consent was taken from the participants before the start of the study. An anonymous questionnaire formed as per WHO guidelines on hand hygiene was used as data collection tool. Results 64% medical and 72% paramedical staff has taken training in hand hygiene in last three years. 19.37% medical and 26.02% paramedical staff reported less time and more work load as barriers in implementing routine hand hygiene practices respectively. 20.93% medical and 6.97% paramedical staff reported training as an important factor for improved hand hygiene practices in the hospital. 66% staff of both groups correctly knows about required time needed for hand washing practice as per WHO guidelines whereas 26% medical and 44% paramedical staff doesn't have correct knowledge of hand hygiene practices when hands are visibly soiled Conclusion Lack of correct knowledge regarding hand hygiene practices among health care providers.