Open AccessAntibiotics and over the counter medication use and its correlates among Arab pregnant women visiting a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Author(s) -
Hafsa Raheel,
Sulaiman Alsakran,
Abdulkhaliq Alghamdi,
Majed Ajarem,
Salman Nawaf Alsulami,
Afzal Mahmood
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
pakistan journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1682-024X
pISSN - 1681-715X
DOI - 10.12669/pjms.332.12376
Subject(s) - medicine , medical prescription , pregnancy , family medicine , over the counter , cross sectional study , tertiary care , alternative medicine , obstetrics , pediatrics , nursing , genetics , pathology , biology
The use of over the counter medications (OTCMs) is a common practice globally. OTCMs are of special concern among pregnant women as they pose risk to the mother and fetus. The objective was to assess the use of OTCMs by pregnant woman, and factors associated with it.