Table 1.
Informant characteristics, all participants and by self-reported antibiotic use and self-medication in the household in the previous year
| Antibiotic use mean (SD) |
Source of antibiotics among users (n = 73) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total sample (n = 100) mean (SD) | Nonusers (n = 27) | Users (n = 73) | p | Users of self-medication (n = 29) | Nonusers of self-medication (n = 44) | p | |
| Age of informant | 33.7 (8.7) | 30.7 | 34.9 | .03 | 33.5 (6.7) | 35.8 (9.7) | .27 |
| Months in STUFFY | 15.1 (2.54) | 15.3 (2.04) | 14.9 (2.71) | .52 | 15.1 (2.5) | 14.9 (2.9) | .71 |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||||
| Occupation* | .63 | .61 | |||||
| Homemaker | 67 (68.4) | 20 (74.1) | 47 (66.2) | 20 (71.4) | 27 (62.8) | ||
| Other | 31 (31.6) | 7 (25.9) | 24 (33.8) | 8 (28.6) | 16 (37.2) | ||
| Education | .26 | .63 | |||||
| < High school | 46 (46) | 15(55.6) | 31 (42.5) | 11 (37.9) | 20 (45.5) | ||
| ≥ HS grad. | 54 (54) | 12 (44.4) | 42 (57.5) | 18 (62.1) | 24 (54.5) | ||
| mean(SD) | mean(SD) | mean(SD) | mean(SD) | mean(SD) | |||
| Antibiotic score | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.3 | .99 | 4.0 | 2.9 | .30 |
| −17 to +17 | (4.4) | (4.4) | (4.6) | (4) | (4.6) | ||
| Nonantibiotic score | 12.5 | 11.8 | 14.5 | .08 | 9.2 | 13.5 | .01 |
| −22 to +22 | (6.8) | (7.4) | (4.5) | (9.7) | (4.8) | ||
| Total score | 15.8 | 15.1 | 17.8 | .12 | 13.2 | 16.4 | .09 |
| −39 to +39 | (7.8) | (7.9) | (7.1) | (9) | (6.0) | ||
*
Two subjects had missing occupation data.
Score calculated as correct +1, incorrect −1, unsure 0.