Major Csilla, Vincze Zoltán, Meskó Attiláné, Balogh Judit, Zelkó Romána, Németh Erzsébet
Semmelweis Egyetem, Egyetemi Gyógyszertár, Gyógyszerügyi Szervezési Intézet, Budapest, Hungary.
Orv Hetil. 2007 Feb 18;148(7):291-8. doi: 10.1556/OH.2007.27754.
Self-medication is a means, besides changing one's lifestyle, of buying and taking non-prescription medicaments. This practice has several advantages. People save time and energy by not sitting for hours in the consulting room of the doctor with a simple ailment, and the doctors also have more time to deal with those requiring more serious treatment. Moreover, the expenditures of the state also decrease, as patients do not visit the doctor but buy non-prescription, i.e. non-supported, medicaments.
The authors surveyed the habits and demands of a survey population concerning non-prescription medicaments, primarily in the pharmacies of Fejér county. A marketing research programme was completed in order to establish better co-operation between patients and pharmacists, within the framework of which 1450 questionnaires were distributed from March to June in 2005, 743 of which were completed and evaluated.
The authors examined, whether there were differences within the answers given to professional questions (questions 1-25 of the questionnaire) through sex, age, qualifications and earning power. Answers were analyzed by statistical methods. Statistical analyses were carried out with the SPSS 13.0 program group. Those results were published, where significant differences were found.
Half of the respondents take medicaments regularly, 65% of them watch advertisements about medicaments several times a day. 40% of those surveyed consult a professionally-qualified person about their decision before buying non-prescription medicaments. The population obtains much information from the brochures enclosed with medicaments, and almost 70% of them read these brochures. According to their opinions, when buying non-prescription products, pharmacists always recommend other possibilities as well, and they give details about the information concerning the application of the medicaments.
In order for people to use non-prescription products properly, it would be definitely necessary to elaborate a successful national education strategy. The population expects information concerning medicaments to be communicated in the pharmacies in an understandable way. It should be in the pharmacy where patients learn about the medicaments they take, where the pharmacist knows what other medicines have been prescribed by a doctor, and whether patients have any illnesses whereby they should not take other products.
自我药疗是一种除改变生活方式之外购买和服用非处方药的方式。这种做法有几个优点。人们不会因小病在医生诊室坐上几个小时，从而节省了时间和精力，医生也有更多时间来诊治那些需要更认真治疗的病人。此外，由于患者不看医生而是购买非处方即非医保药品，国家的开支也会减少。
作者主要针对费耶尔州各药店，调查了被调查人群有关非处方药的习惯和需求。为了在患者和药剂师之间建立更好的合作，完成了一项市场调研项目，在此框架内，2005年3月至6月分发了1450份问卷，其中743份被填写并进行了评估。
作者研究了在对专业问题（问卷第1 - 25题）的回答中，是否因性别、年龄、学历和收入能力存在差异。答案采用统计方法进行分析。使用SPSS 13.0程序组进行统计分析。公布了发现显著差异的结果。
一半的受访者经常服药，其中65%的人每天多次观看药品广告。40%的被调查者在购买非处方药前会就自己的决定咨询专业人士。人们从所购药品附带的说明书中获取很多信息，近70%的人会阅读这些说明书。据他们的看法，购买非处方产品时，药剂师总会推荐其他选择，并会详细说明有关药品使用的信息。
为了让人们正确使用非处方产品，制定一项成功的全国性教育策略肯定是必要的。人们期望药店能以易懂的方式传达有关药品的信息。应该在药店，患者了解他们所服用的药品，药剂师知道医生还开了哪些其他药品，以及患者是否患有某些疾病而不应服用其他产品。
