Étude de la contraception médicamenteuse orale entre la prescription et l'automédication dans la ville de m’sila

Abstract

The main aim of oral contraceptives is to provide effective contraceptive protection in the best way possible. Nowadays, it's possible to choose the suitable time to welcome a child . Pregnancy then becomes an often-deliberate decision. However, they are not without adverse effects on women's health. In this study, which was a statistical epidemiological survey with cross-sectional descriptive aims, it was carried out over a four-month period through questionnairy for married and single women in the city of M'sila, the purposes of this work is to evaluate the use of oral contraceptives between prescription and self-medication. Our results, which included 200 women on oral contraceptives, showed that women in the 25- 30 age bracket predominated, 139 of women took the pill by self-medication, 55% of women experienced adverse effects, 56.5% (n=113) would sometimes forgets to take the pill and 28% (n=56) forget it regularly. In principle, oral contraceptives are drugs of list 01 and shouldn’t be taken by self-medicated. However, our survey has revealed the opposite, which means that numerous awarenessraising campaigns are essential to limit this phenomenon, and that further in-depth studies of this kind are urgently needed.