Abstract

Corticosteroids have an essential role in treating numerous symptoms and inflammatory diseases. They can be used to treat different endocrine, rheumatologic, pulmonary, hematologic, ophthalmologic, gastrointestinal and dermatologic disorders. However, these drugs cause a wide range of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) including weight gain, osteoporosis, fractures, psychiatric and cognitive disturbances, immunosuppression and etc… The aim of this study is to assess the people awareness of the risks of excessive use of cortisone medications and their side effects. We designed an online, self-administered, anonymous, questionnaire based, cross-sectional survey was conducted via Google Forms, as questioners. the study includes survey contain different questions, the research recruited 396 participations from the age of 1 to more than 50. At period time from February 2024 to April 2024. Most of them male gender. The present results show that 30% of people use the corticosteroids drugs to dermatological diseases,50% of participants take drug according to the doctor prescription. 80% for patient that suffer from increase in blood pressure and blood sugar after use of these drugs. We can conclude that different types of corticosteroids offered in different diseases without any restriction and consequent side effects were very clear.