Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants and association with using the medication home delivery service (n=556)
| Variables | n (%) | Users of the MHD service n (%) |
P Valuea | Cramer’s phi (φc) | P Valuea | Adjusted ORb | 95% CI | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total n=556 |
No n=170 (30.6%) |
Yes n=386 (69.4%) |
Lower | Upper | |||||
| Age | |||||||||
| ≤ 40years | 398 (71.6%) | 130 (76.5%) | 268 (69.4%) | 0.300 | 0.10 | Reference | |||
| >40 years | 158 (28.4%) | 40 (23.5%) | 118 (30.6%) | 0.15 | 0.25 | 0.04 | 1.6 | ||
| Gender | |||||||||
| 40Male | 133 (23.9%) | 45 (26.5%) | 88 (22.8%) | 0.290 | 0.04 | Reference | |||
| Female | 422 (75.9%) | 125 (73.5%) | 298 (77.2%) | 0.06 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 2.7 | ||
| Education level | 0.015 | ||||||||
| Non-formal education | 5 (0.9%) | 1 (0.6%) | 4 (1.0%) | 0.006 | 0.16 | Reference | |||
| Primary – high school | 151 (27.4%) | 50 (29.4%) | 102 (26.4%) | 0.3 | 0.76 | 0.48 | 1.3 | ||
| Diploma degree | 55 (10.0%) | 7 (4.1%) | 48 (12.4%) | 0.22 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 3.5 | ||
| Bachelor’s degree | 272 (49.3%) | 97 (57.1%) | 178 (46.1%) | 0.02 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 7.6 | ||
| Postgraduate degree | 69 (12.5%) | 15 (8.8%) | 54 (14.0%) | 0.04 | 2.01 | 1.1 | 8.9 | ||
| Marital status | 0.23 | ||||||||
| Divorced or widowed | 24 (4.2%) | 8 (4.7%) | 16 (4.1%) | 0.470 | 0.05 | Reference | |||
| Single | 320 (57.8%) | 104 (61.2%) | 216 (56.0%) | 0.29 | 5.1 | 0.2 | 109.4 | ||
| Married | 212 (38.0%) | 58 (34.1%) | 154 (39.9%) | 0.18 | 2.7 | 0.40 | 18.4 | ||
| Participants having children | |||||||||
| No | 236 (42.4%) | 66 (38.8%) | 170 (44.0%) | 0.210 | 0.05 | Reference | |||
| Yes | 320 (57.6%) | 104 (61.2%) | 216 (56.0%) | 0. 38 | 1.6 | 0.82 | 2.4 | ||
| Participants living with elderly people (over 65 years) | |||||||||
| No | 431 (77.5%) | 131 (77.1%) | 300 (77.7%) | 0.710 | 0.03 | Reference | |||
| Yes | 125 (22.5%) | 39 (22.9%) | 86 (22.3%) | 0.06 | 0.78 | 0.37 | 1.6 | ||
| Participants with medical/health background | |||||||||
| No | 279 (50.2%) | 99 (58.2%) | 180 (46.6%) | Reference | |||||
| Yes | 277 (49.8%) | 71 (41.8%) | 206 (53.4%) | 0.011 | 0.11 | <0.001 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 3.49 |
| Participants with chronic diseases | |||||||||
| No | 411 (73.9%) | 137 (80.1%) | 274 (71.0%) | 0.020 | 0.10 | Reference | |||
| Yes | 145 (26.1%) | 33 (19.4%) | 112 (29.0%) | 0.48 | 0.8 | 0.46 | 1.44 | ||
| Visit to community pharmacy | 0.002 | ||||||||
| < three months | 273 (49.1%) | 98 (57.6%) | 175 (45.3%) | 0.002 | 0.15 | Reference | |||
| Weekly | 62 (11.2%) | 8 (4.7%) | 54 (14.0%) | <0.001 | 5.3 | 2.2 | 13.1 | ||
| Monthly | 221 (39.7%) | 64 (37.6%) | 157 (40.7%) | 0.055 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 2.7 | ||
aBold font illustrated statistically significance at the level of <0.05
bAdjustment based on multivariable logistic regression