Medical Follow-up and Self-medication Among Medical Students

Completed

• Conditions: Medical Student

• Registration Number: NCT05578911
• Lead Sponsor: Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne

Brief Summary

As health actors, medical students educate patients to have regular medical follow-up and give them justified medical prescriptions. Regarding their own health, medical students do not seem to apply these same principles.

The medical follow-up of medical students seems insufficient, which can be explained by the lack of medical follow-up by occupational medicine, a consequent work time, but also the fear of judgment by colleagues Moreover, medical student have an easy access to all types of prescriptions and therefore the ease of self-prescription and self-medication. Medical students may also overestimate their medical knowledge and may not be objective about their symptomatology.

Detailed Description

The aim of the study will be to describe medical follow-up and self-medication among medical students

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2022-10
• Study Start: 2022-10-05
• Study First Submitted: 2022-10-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-10-10
• Study First Posted: 2022-10-13
• Primary Completion: 2022-11-07
• Study Completion: 2022-11-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-11-07
• Last Update Posted: 2022-11-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 264

Inclusion Criteria

• medical student in general practice or in specialty medicine
• agreeing to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

• none

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
self-medication	Day 0	Number of medical students with prescription for themself of a medical treatment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
self-prescription	Day 0	Number of medical students with prescription for themself of an biological analysis and/or a medical imaging

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ufr Medecine Urca; 🇫🇷 Reims, France