Effective factors related to self- medication among patients from nurse's viewpoint who working in Isfahan private hospitals

Self-Medication is an epidemic case whole over the world. It contains the use of a kind of drug for curing or preventing of being sick or improving health without a specialist prescription. This survey was done to consider Isfahan nurses’ perception regarding the causes of self- medication in patients.
This cross-sectional survey was conducted on 291 nurses who working in 10 private hospitals of Isfahan which selected through randomly. Gathered data were entered to SPSS software, version 20, and were analyzed with descriptive statistics along with Mann-Whitney and Spearman rank correlation tests. Alpha level set at ≤0.05.
Findings: The first reason of self-medication was the high cost of treatment and drug with 82.1%.The second reason was pre experience of sickness at a rate of 72.5% and the third reason was ignorant of the side effects of drug at a rate of 72.5%.
Based on the result of the current survey it seems that increasing co-operation between groups to reduce the cost of physicians visit fee and offering ways like the prohibition on selling drugs without prescription, and using mass media like TV to increase of people information can decrease the request form using intractable drugs.