Kumari Abha, Alam Md Shadab, Kujur Manisha, Kumar Sandeep
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, IND.
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, IND.
Cureus. 2022 Aug 1;14(8):e27555. doi: 10.7759/cureus.27555. eCollection 2022 Aug.
Medicines play a crucial role in treating various diseases. Most individuals, in their haste to get through their day, have developed the bad habit of improperly discarding their unwanted or expired prescriptions, which poses a number of risks to human health and contributes to environmental degradation. Disposal procedures of unused and expired pharmaceuticals among health care personnel at tertiary care centers have been the subject of very little research to date. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine how medical staff at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Ranchi, Jharkhand, handle stale or unwanted prescription drugs.
The design of the study was cross-sectional analytical conducted among 385 health care professionals. Pretested semi-structured questionnaires prepared in Google Forms (Google LLC, Mountain View, California, United States) have been used for evaluation.
The completely filled questionnaires were analyzed, evaluated, and expressed in the percentage using Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, United States). The most common method of disposal of unused and expired medications was throwing them in the dustbin.
In this study, although, all the participants were health care professionals, because of the hectic schedule majority of them used unsafe methods of drug disposal. So, in order to protect our ecosystem, appropriate policy should be made to implement the methods for the safe disposal of unused and expired medications.
药物在治疗各种疾病中起着至关重要的作用。大多数人急于度过一天，养成了不当丢弃不需要或过期处方药物的坏习惯，这对人类健康构成了诸多风险，并导致环境退化。迄今为止，三级护理中心医护人员对未使用和过期药品的处理程序研究甚少。因此，本研究的目的是调查贾坎德邦兰契市拉金德拉医学科学研究所的医务人员如何处理陈旧或不需要的处方药。
本研究采用横断面分析设计，对385名医护专业人员进行调查。使用在谷歌表单（谷歌有限责任公司，美国加利福尼亚州山景城）中预先测试的半结构化问卷进行评估。
对完全填写的问卷进行分析、评估，并使用微软Excel（微软公司，美国华盛顿州雷德蒙德）以百分比形式呈现。处理未使用和过期药物最常见的方法是将它们扔进垃圾桶。
在本研究中，尽管所有参与者都是医护专业人员，但由于日程繁忙，他们中的大多数人采用了不安全的药物处理方法。因此，为了保护我们的生态系统，应制定适当政策以实施未使用和过期药物的安全处理方法。
