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Objective:To determine the prevalence of geriatric population who usesself-medication. To evaluate the most common illnesses for which self-medication is being used and to know what are the common drugs which are by the geriatric population for self-medication. Methodology:It was a descriptive cross-sectional study which was conducted in Karachi on geriatric population over the age of 60 years. The study was done in May and August 2014.A total of 124 participants were selected for the study by non-probability purposive sampling. Data was analyzed using SPSS 17. Written informed consent was obtained from each and every participant. Confidentiality and anonymity of the data was ensured. Results:Results show that 55.6% of the respondents were between the age of 61 to 65 years old, males respondents were predominant in the study group, all kinds of work status people were included in the study, 84.68% respondents indicated that they use self-medication in our study population, 70.5% of them used selfmedication on their own rather than on someone else’s advice.Most of the population preferred to use selfmedication because of two reason, 32.4% because of their previous experience and 28.6% used self-medication as per their convenience. The most common symptoms to use self-medication are headache (46.0%) and pain elsewhere (37.1%). Pain killers are the most commonly used self-medication(64.5%) followed by herbal medications. Conclusion:In our study the prevalence of self-medication was high as compared to other studies conducted in Pakistan, in this study it was found that most common symptoms for which self-medication was used are headache and pain elsewhere, and pain killers are the most common drugs which are being used by the old age people.

Self-Medication and Inappropriate drug use in Geriatric Population of Karachi, Pakistan