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

Introduction: Self-medication among future health care professionals can represent a serious threat to professionalism in medicine and it has potential to put at risk public trust into this profession. The aim of this research was to investigate prevalence and risk factors for self-medication among population of medical students, because it was previously shown that their attitudes towards pharmacotherapy could affect the way they could prescribe medication in the future.

Material And Methods: Research was performed as a cross-sectional study and it included 1296 (84.