Institute of Clinical Psychology

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    Health anxiety, self-medicating behavior and general health issues in University students.
    (University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2016) Ansar, Muniba
    The aim of this research was to find out the relationship among Self-Medication, Health Anxiety and General Health Problems in University population. The sample of this research was comprised of (N=200), in which an equal proportion from government and private university students were taken, while cross sectional research design was used in the research. To measure self-medication an indigenous scale was developed, while Health Anxiety Questionnaire was used to assess Anxiety among university population regarding their health issues (Lucock& Morley, 1990), moreover General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg & Williams, 1998) was used to assess general health issues of university students. Results revealed that there was a highly significant positive correlation among anxiety, fear, and dissatisfaction with doctors, health anxiety, self-medicating behavior and general health negative. Furthermore results also revealed that availability of medicine leads to high consumption of self-medication and female university students have more health anxiety than male students. Results also revealed that higher level of health anxiety exists among early adulthood students than later years, moreover low general health in university students leads to self-medication behavior. Results also describe that health anxiety in university students is a significant predictor of self-medication. Furthermore from the results it has also been revealed that Gender is also a key predictor of self-medication, which gives a notation that consumption self-medication is influenced by gender. The research also provide an indigenous scale of self-medication that can be used in further researches in the field of clinical psychology.