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ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE REGARDING DISPOSAL OF UNUSED AND EXPIRED MEDICINES
Shrikalp Deshpande*, Javid Mansuri, Krishna Maisuria, Kashish Patel, Vidhi Patel, Margi Patel
ABSTRACT
In the last few years incidence of disease rate is increase with that for the preventing purpose medicine use is also increase. People bought the medicines but not adhere all the medicines for some various reason and got expired. Lack of knowledge regarding the proper disposal practice of expired and unused medicines it cause dangerous harm to the environment. In year of decades many researches are done in other countries. Even they developed some disposal practice for expired medicines and for unused medicines they started drug take back polices as the result of the different studies while in India there are very less studies are done. A Observational question based study was conducted for 2 different sites for 6 months. Objectives of this study was to assess knowledge, attitude and practice on safe disposal of expired medicines. To study the factors influencing keeping unused medicines at home. Study the class of the drug which remain unused. Calculate the total Keywords: “Knowlegde”, “Attitude”, “Disposal Ptractice”, “Unused and Expired”, “Medicines”. [Download Article] [Download Certifiate] |