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The Impact of Social and Broadcast Media on Public Health Initiatives: Study of the COVID-19 Infodemics.
Stud Health Technol Inform
January 2024
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Sciences and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- * The study examines Google Trends for searches related to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), azithromycin, and the BCG vaccine in six countries, finding that the US, Brazil, and India were interested in HCQ, while Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea focused on the BCG vaccine.
- * The article aims to highlight the risks of adverse drug reactions and warns against self-prescribing, political biases, and relying on social media during health crises.
Factors associated with the use of medicines and self-medication during the COVID-19 pandemic in 12 Latin American countries.
Heliyon
January 2024
Department of Research Analytics, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Chennai, India.
Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered a rise in the global phenomenon of self-medication. The use of medicines with unsubstantiated claims of benefit for the prevention and/or treatment of infected people has been widely adopted.
Objective: To determine the factors associated with the use of medicines and self-medication by Latin American populations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Enhancing self-medication practices in the era of infodemic: the role of pharmacovigilance.
Ther Adv Drug Saf
August 2023
Research Group in Applied Biomedical Sciences (UR Biomed), School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Carrera 24 # 63C-69, Bogotá 111221, Colombia.
Self-medication during the Era of COVID-19; Potential Implications for Drug Policy Makers and Pharmacovigilance.
Curr Drug Saf
March 2023
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak is marked by infodemic amid conspiracy theories, false claims, rumors, and misleading narratives, which have had a significant impact on the global campaign against COVID-19. The drug repurposing provides a hope to curb the growing encumbrance of the disease but at the same time, it poses various challenges such as selfmedication using repurposed drugs and its associated harms. During the continuing pandemic, this perspective piece explores the potential hazards of self-medication and its attributing factors along with possible countermeasures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe influence of the pandemic on fear of contagion, blood pressure management and adherence to medication in hypertensive older adults in Turkey.
J Hum Hypertens
September 2022
Department of Nursing, Ondokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Health Sciences, Samsun, Turkey.
The study was conducted to identify the impact of the pandemic on hypertensive older people's COVID-19 fear, blood pressure control, and medication adherence. In this descriptive, correlational study, mean medication adherence was taken as 45.6 ± 6.
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