Investigation of the status of self-medication behaviors in children and analysis of its influencing factors / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the status of the self-medication behavior in children,and analyze the problems existing in medication of children by their parents,in order to provide references for the nurses to give medication guide to the parents of the children.Methods On the principle of convenience sampiing,120 hospitalized children's parents from a grade-Ⅲ A level hospitals in Jilin Province were investigated with a self-designed questionnaire.Results 79.3％ of the parents did not behaved standardly in children's self-medication,75.0％ of the parents' behaviors were not standardized in the management of the children's drugs; there was significant difference in the level of the children's self-medication among the parents with varied academic background or the age and the children's age.Conclusions The processes of self-medication in children have potential health risks,the nurses should strengthen health education,raise the parents' cognition of the risk of self-medication for children,and thus to help parents establish scientific and rational self-medication behaviors.