Table 2. Prevalence of self-medication .

First author	Year	Title of the article	Study region	Sample size	The reported prevalence of self-medication %
Elden [30]	2020	Risk factors of antibiotics self-medication practices among university students in Cairo, Egypt	Egypt	600	77.7
Amin [29]	2019	Prevalence of antimicrobial self-medication among patients attending two hospitals in the Buea Health District, Cameroon	Cameroon	329	68.4
Badger-Emeka [31]	2018	Evaluation of the extent and reasons for increased non-prescription antibiotics use in a university town, Nsukka Nigeria	Nigeria	400	86
Banerjee [32]	2016	Self-medication practice among preclinical university students in a medical school from the city of Pokhara, Nepal	Nepal	488	81.4
Jimenez-Nunez [33]	2016	Impact of a training action on the prevalence of self-medication among students from the Faculty of Education Sciences at the University of Malaga	Spain	249	72.7
Williams [34]	2016	Self-medication practices among undergraduate nursing and midwifery students in Australia: a cross-sectional study	Australia	120	91.7
Gelayee [35]	2017	Self-medication pattern among Social Science University students in Northwest Ethiopia	Ethiopia	385	32.7
Jakaria [36]	2017	Evaluation of self medication among students from different universities in Chittagong, Bangladesh	Bangladesh	439	52.2