Table 3.

Number of men who used prescribed medicine (n), prevalence of prescribed medicine use in % and bivariate and multivariate association between prescribed medicine use during the preceding 15 days and independent variables in men, by perceived health status.

	Good perceived health status					Poor perceived health status
Variables	n	Prev.	Bivar OR	Mvar OR	95% CI	n	Prev.	Bivar OR	Mvar OR	95% CI
Age
15-34	60	9.2	1	1		7	19.3	1	1
35-54	68	13.0	*1.46	1.25	082-1.89	26	27.5	1.62	2.43	0.77-7.63
55-64	35	18.7	*2.25	1.88	1.12-3.18	35	37.6	*2.57	3.13	0.96-10.21
> = 65	61	29.6	*4.12	3.37	1.47-7.69	88	48.5	*4.01	8.63	1.97-37.77
Total	224	14.4				156	38.4
Social class
I-II	62	15.0	1	1		21	51.5	1	1
III	76	16.1	1.09	1.15	0.79-1.69	54	43.6	*0.72	0.82	0.37-1.81
IV-V	83	13.4	0.87	1.01	0.69-1.49	78	33.3	*0.47	0.42	0.19-0.91
Employment status
Salaried employees	126	13.9	1	1		32	39.8	1	1
Unemployed men	12	15.0	1.09	1.33	0.69-2.52	10	31.3	*0.68	1.57	0.64-3.85
Retired men	67	22.1	*1.76	1.08	0.51-2.27	88	34.2	0.78	0.85	0.29-2.46
Students	17	22.9	*1.84	0.65	0.34-1.23	0	0	0	0	0
Type of PHC
PCR 1984-93	25	9.4	1	1		44	43.7	1	1
PCR 1994-98	48	15.7	*1.81	1.95	1.14-3.32	32	37.9	*0.78	0.58	0.29-1.16
No PCR	78	15.8	*1.81	2.02	1.23-3.33	57	38.8	*0.81	0.72	0.40-1.32
Mutual or private	48	17.9	*2.11	2.26	1.29-3.95	17	45.6	1.08	0.60	0.24-1.47
No usual PHC	23	12.2	*1.33	1.42	0.75-2.66	6	31.1	*0.58	0.45	0.14-1.42

Barcelona Health Interview Survey, 2000.

PHC indicates primary health care; n, number of cases; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; Bivar OR, bivariate odds ratio; Mvar OR, multivariate odds ratio; PCR, primary care reform.

* p value < 0.05