Content of Home Pharmacies and Self-Medication Practices in Households of Pharmacy Students

Home medication box - the mirror of whole family medications consumption habits. Family home medication box composition and medications storage order can be a serious indicator that reflects family life, social status, and medication usage. The aim: To evaluate Pharmacy Faculty students families home medication boxes content, storage conditions, value and sources of information which determines home medication box composition. Method: A questionnaire was prepared to perform the research. The research involved 182 first-year and fifth-year students. The study done in 2012. May - October. Results: The families of first-year Pharmacy Faculty students which keeps medications not in original packaging, has medications with passed expiration period in their home medication boxes more often (50.00%) than fifth-year students families (37.50%) (p>0.05). Pharmacy faculty students families containing 4 people usually keep medication of each family member in one place (p<0.001). Conclusions: Pharmacy Faculty students responsibly evaluate home medication box storage conditions and have one special person who is responsible for home medication box composition. Fifth-year Pharmacy Faculty students have a greater influence on home medication box composition than firstyear students.Article in Lithuanian