Table 3.

One way ANOVA test results.

	Variables	Frequency	Diseases treated (DT)			Real life practice (RP)			Drug used (DU)
			Mean	SD	Sig.	Mean	SD	Sig.	Mean	SD	Sig.
Knowledge about medication
	Primary	104	13.25	3.346	< 0.001	17.56	6.026	< 0.001	24.40	5.263	< 0.001
	Intermediate	233	17.65	3.456		23.57	5.224		29.07	6.066
	Advance	80	15.60	4.815		21.86	8.327		31.61	8.662
Knowledge about medicine groups
	Primary	126	13.92	3.722	< 0.001	18.31	5.971	< 0.001	26.20	5.888	< 0.001
	Intermediate	209	16.11	3.371		22.01	5.846		29.28	6.702
	Advance	82	19.71	4.185		26.32	6.444		33.26	7.353
Knowledge about adverse drug reaction
	Primary	199	13.92	3.620	< 0.001	19.41	6.478	0.005	26.56	7.096	0.002
	Intermediate	181	17.66	3.432		23.23	6.027		31.19	6.282
	Advance	37	20.84	2.609		27.00	4.679		32.89	4.881
Attitude towards self-medication
	Positive	197	18.39	3.274	0.011	26.39	4.066	< 0.001	32.51	5.881	< 0.001
	Undecided	86	15.92	3.312		20.42	5.157		26.69	6.774
	Negative	134	13.04	3.736		15.76	5.095		25.73	6.460
Attitude towards adverse effect of self-medication
	Positive	167	18.72	3.158	0.007	26.34	4.574	< 0.001	32.35	5.979	< 0.001
	Undecided	104	16.47	3.050		21.44	4.784		29.96	6.729
	Negative	146	13.01	3.722		16.69	5.901		24.86	6.144
Physical convenience of self-medicating
	Slightly	70	13.03	4.177	< 0.001	16.19	6.493	0.003	23.21	6.972	0.015
	Moderately	101	14.41	3.761		19.44	6.185		25.50	6.612
	Highly	246	17.77	3.456		24.27	5.400		32.30	5.176
Physical inconvenience of prescribed-medication
	Slightly	101	13.61	4.108	< 0.001	18.26	6.580	< 0.001	22.18	6.966	< 0.001
	Moderately	108	16.12	3.642		21.00	5.701		27.46	4.850
	Highly	208	17.41	3.863		23.82	6.277		33.37	4.530
Source: Field survey 2023