Abstract

A SURVEY ON PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, USE AND ATTITUDE ABOUT THE ROLE OF MULTIVITAMIN

Bimlesh Chaudhary*, Chanderpal and Pankaj Chaudhary

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Abstract

Vitamin are consuming among many people all over the world, as it come under OTC drug and also prescribed as a concomitant medication. Most of the people believe that they are safe and not causing any harmful effect. So we conduct a questionnaire based survey in palwal, Haryana to understand consumer knowledge and attitude towards the use of vitamin and also aware them the safe use. Methodology – A questioner based survey was conducted from sep2021to may 2022. The questionnaire was divided into 3 sections and each section contains the information regarding vitamin. Participants were approached at random after explaining the purpose of the study. Result- Total 749 responses were received out of which 210 were male and 290 were female. In this study 383(51%) participants taking vitamin. The most common source of information was found to be physician 64%, 27% were self prescribed, 4% were get information from internet while 5% were taking on the advice of family and relative. Among the users, 256 (66.8%) participants considered vitamin to be helpful. Conclusion- Result of this survey indicate the use of vitamin on daily basis as it available OTC and commonly prescribed by physician. Majority of population are not aware of their proper use, possible side effects or drug- vitamin interaction.

Keywords: Vitamin supplement, side effects, Use of multivitamin, Covid-19.