{"id":5525,"date":"2023-03-28T20:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jphres.org\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2023-04-02T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:04:09","slug":"demographic-and-socioeconomic-characteristics-of-outpatients-could-modify-their-attitude-towards-misusing-medications-in-northern-jordan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jphres.us.com\/index.php\/jphres\/article\/view\/818\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of outpatients could modify their attitude towards misusing medications in northern Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"authors\">\n<p><strong class=\"aut_name\">Mansour Haddad<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-author-affilitation\">Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Philadelphia University, Amman,\u00a0<i>Jordan<\/i>.<\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"aut_name\"><br \/>\nMohamed Elsaed Ebada<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"orcid\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1922-4376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1922-4376<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-author-affilitation\">Department of Pharmacology, National Organization for Drug Control and Research (NODCAR), Agouza, Giza,\u00a0<i>Egypt<\/i>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"summary\" class=\"article-summary\">\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-abstract\"><em>Background<\/em>. Potentially inappropriate drug use, including prescribed and over-the-counter medications, is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. It also contributes to unnecessary expenditure on health services. This survey was undertaken to investigate the incidence of drug misuse and associated socioeconomic\/ demographic characteristics in Irbid, Jordan.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nDesign and Methods.<\/em>\u00a0The present cross section study was conducted using a validated 5-point Likert scale questionnaire to be self-reported by 480 outpatients visiting clinics in three major medical centres in Irbid, Jordan between 20th October 2015 and 27th November 2015. Descriptive analysis, chi-square tests and ordinal logistic regression models were performed.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nResults<\/em>. Patients demonstrated distinctive attitudes towards medication misuse (P&lt;0.001). Whereas around 40% of patients sometimes stopped taking medications earlier than prescribed or doubled the dose in case of missing a dose, three quarters and two fifth of participants neither used expired drugs nor continued to take a drug when adverse drug reactions occurred, respectively. Also, there were significant associations (P&lt;0.05) between patients\u2019 attitudes towards misusing medications and characteristics like age, gender, income and marital status. For instance, senior patients (&gt;45 years) tended to double a medication\u2019s dose in case of no improvement, and to use others\u2019 leftover drugs without medical supervision. Further, male and female patients exhibited different attitude towards misusing medications. Unemployment and little earnings increased the risk for not using drugs properly. Furthermore, married patients were less likely to misuse medications. In particular, the educational level of patients was found to play a major role in modifying patients\u2019 attitudes towards potentially inappropriate drug use. Patients holding one or more university degrees were at lower risk for using medications inappropriately.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nConclusions<\/em>. This survey indicated that northern Jordanians inappropriately used medications to a great extent, suggesting that the current policies should be revised, and emphasising the importance of running public antidrug misuse awareness campaigns and establishing advanced educational\/training events targeting healthcare professionals.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mansour Haddad Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Philadelphia University, Amman,\u00a0Jordan. Mohamed Elsaed Ebada https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1922-4376 Department of Pharmacology, National Organization for Drug Control and Research (NODCAR), Agouza, Giza,\u00a0Egypt. Abstract Background. Potentially inappropriate drug use, including prescribed and over-the-counter medications, is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. It also contributes to unnecessary expenditure on health &#8230; <a title=\"Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of outpatients could modify their attitude towards misusing medications in northern Jordan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jphres.us.com\/index.php\/jphres\/article\/view\/818\/\" aria-label=\"More on Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of outpatients could modify their attitude towards misusing medications in northern Jordan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5525","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of outpatients could modify their attitude towards misusing medications in northern Jordan - Journal of Public Health Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jphres.us.com\/index.php\/jphres\/article\/view\/818\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of outpatients could modify their attitude towards misusing medications in northern Jordan - Journal of Public Health Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mansour Haddad Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Philadelphia University, Amman,\u00a0Jordan. 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