Rev Cubana Med Trop
April 2013
Introduction: self-medication and use of several products as peliculicides seem to be common procedures for those persons living with schoolchildren, in order to eliminate head lice.
Objective: to analyze the deliberate use of several products by the people living with elementary school children, so as to control their pediculosis capitis.
Methods: a questionnaire- and exchange of opinion-based survey on the products used to control or eliminate head lice was administered to 896 people who lived with children aged 5 to 10 years.