over the counter drugs
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Over The counter drugs. What is OTC?. Over-the-counter (OTC) medicines are drugs you can buy without a prescription, they are safe and effective for use by the general public without seeking treatment by a health professional. OTC. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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OVER THE COUNTER DRUGS
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WHAT IS OTC? Over-the-counter (OTC) medicines are drugs
you can buy without a prescription, they are safe and effective for use by the general public without seeking treatment by a health professional .
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OTC We've chosen this topic because of it’s
serious impact on health , now many people use medications without prescriptions and they unfortunately don't have a clue about the side effects.
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OUR GOAL : our goal that we are hoping to decrease
their use of it without medical advise by explaining to them:1-how serious are these medications.2- what are the side effects.3- emphasize on seeking medical advice.4-warning sign that should be seen in hospital.
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We distributed simple questionnaire to patients in waiting area in general clinics.
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OUR OBJECTIVES IN THE QUESTIONNAIRE ARE:
To see which OTC drugs are commonly use among our society.
If they and their relatives get use to prescribed for their selves.
We want to be sure if they know how serious is the problem.
If they get any side effect. The common symptoms that they don’t seek
medical advice and prefer to describe to their selves.
Then we collected the questionnaire and their phone numbers to inform them about the results
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We came out from this questionnaire with the following results :
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The percentage of patient who are prescribing without seeking medical advice was 82% , and 18% were not.
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استشارة دون يصرف استشارة دون اليصرف0
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األفــــــراد
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The common symptoms that they don’t seek medical advice for it are:
Headache 30% Common cold 22% Infections 19% Cough 18% Menstrual cramps4% Allergy 4% Toothache 3
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صداع30%
زكام22%
التهابات19%
سعال18%
الدورة أالم4%
حساسية4%
األسنان أالم4%
ذاتيا الدواء أجلها من المصروف األعراض
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The common medications used without prescription are:
Analgesics 73% Antibiotic 14% Cough syrup 13% Herbals 3%
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حيوي مسكنات مضاد كحة أعشاب أدوية
73
14 13
3
ذاتيا المستخدمة األدوية
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we designed a brochure and distributed it among the patients.
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Two of us wrote the approval paper on Sunday 9\12\2012 to Prof. sa’ad Al-saedy to take the consent to do our campaign , and we received the paper at the same week on Wednesday.
We did our campaign on Saturday 15\12\2012 near the waiting area of outpatient clinics in first floor. Dr Mai was our supervisor & she came to support us at that day.
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THIS SOME PICTURE OF OUR CAMPAIGN
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THANK YOU
Alanoud MusawaHafsa Jamal Hessa Buali
Doaa AlsharrefSara AlJedaani
Maha Al GhamdiNada Alblewi Narjis AlAmri
Roaa AbusualimanMaha AlBogami
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TANK YOU