Knowledge, Awareness and Disposal Practice for Unused Medications among the Students of the Private University of Bangldesh
Journal Title: Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
Medicines play an important role in treating many conditions and diseases, but when they are no longer needed it’s important to dispose of them properly to avoid harm to others, so knowledge and practice of unused medications is essential to our community. Lack of knowledge especially in this aspect may lead to dangerous environmental pollution and which in turn would lead to immediate health hazard to present and coming future generations. This was an educational and cross-sectional survey involving with respondents on a structured and multiple choice questions like: ‘Why people do not use all of their medications?’, ‘Why do they keep unused medications?’, ‘Storage and how to dispose their medications’ etc. The aim of this study was to evaluate the understanding, public awareness and manners to develop about harmful effects of medication’s waste. The study was done on 310 pharmacy students of World University of Bangladesh (WUB) and Gono Bishwabidyalay (GB) covering all year of study (year 1 – year 4). Question papers were distributed accordingly into four different years of study which consist of 11stucture questionnaires and options. However, only 290 pharmacy students had completed the survey form. Among 310 respondents 95.55% had idea on these articles where as 4.45% had no idea. Although, 37% of the respondent knew about ‘medication’s waste’ but about 3.1% of the respondents, who ‘’follow drug-take-back system’ because of above 96.2% of the respondents, who did not know about ‘drug-take-back system’. Most of the participants reported disposing of liquid medication waste in such a way that leads to their ending up in a landfill which is about 58%. Finally, 73% of solid dosage form also ends up in a landfill. This survey suggests that there is an urgent needs to develop of public awareness and there is also need to develop dispensing policies and delivered to collection bag which deduction the volume of medication waste.
Authors and Affiliations
Zubair Khalid labu*| Department of Pharmacy, World University of Bangladesh, Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh, Mir Md. Abdullah Al-Mamun| Department of Pharmacy, World University of Bangladesh, Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh, Md, Harun-or-Rashid| Department of Pharmacy, Gono Bishwabidyalay, Savar, Dhaka 1344, Bangladesh., Krishanu Sikder| Department of Pharmacy, Gono Bishwabidyalay, Savar, Dhaka 1344, Bangladesh.
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