Abstract

Objective: The aim of the study was households’ survey to evaluate the storage and expiry date of medicines in families in Kalanaur town of Haryana, India. Methodology: A cross-sectional, pre and post-study was conducted using a set of household interview questionnaire. Results: A total of 500 families’ are enrolled, of which 38.4% are male and 61.6% are female. The proportion of respondents having age 15-30 years 59.8%, 30-40 years 22.6%, 40-50 years 8.4%, 50-60 years 6%, and > 60 years 3.2%, 64.6% are married and 35.4% are unmarried respondents. They lives in urban areas, of which respondents having primary to high education level 49.8%, 42% have high to graduation and 8.2% have post graduate, regarding occupation majority are labour 42% and private sector 39% and 15.2 % families have government and 4.2 % has work as farmer, check expiry date of medicine (pre-intervention 90.6%, post-intervention 99.4%), kept left over medicines for reuse (pre-intervention 57%, post-intervention 50%), return-back the unused medicines to pharmacy (pre-intervention-9.6%, post-intervention 17.6%), throw left over medicines (pre-intervention 33.4%, post-intervention 32.4%), stored medicines as per instruction in refrigerator (pre-intervention 43%, post-intervention 54.2%), place where the medicines stored at home are: - wardrobe (pre-intervention 7%, post-intervention 1.8%), medicines box (preintervention 43%, post-intervention 54.8%) table drawer (pre-intervention 19.8%, post-intervention 21% ), in bag (pre-intervention 17.6%, post-intervention 17.8%), other places (pre-intervention 12.8%, post-intervention 4.6%), Conclusion There is a widespread lack of knowledge about dealing with medicines

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