Table 3. Relationship between home country behavior, health beliefs, and access to care variables to acquisition of nonprescribed antimicrobial drugs in United States*.
| Variable | Obtained in US without
prescription, n (%) |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | p | |
| Bought outside the United States without prescription | |||
| Yes | 31 (31.3) | 68 (68.7) | <0.01 |
| No | 11 (9.2) | 109 (90.8) | |
| Should antimicrobial drugs be available without prescription? | |||
| Yes | 25 (37.3) | 42 (62.7) | <0.01 |
| No | 17 (11.2) | 135 (88.8) | |
| Age (y) | |||
| <30 | 29 (24.2) | 91 (75.8) | 0.04 |
| ≥30 | 13 (13.1) | 86 (86.9) | |
| Health status | |||
| Excellent-good | 39 (20.5) | 151 (79.5) | 0.19 |
| Fair-poor | 3 (10.3) | 26 (89.7) | |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 16 (21.0) | 60 (79.0) | 0.61 |
| Female | 26 (18.2) | 117 (81.8) | |
| Years in United States | |||
| <4 | 11 (12.4) | 78 (87.6) | 0.03 |
| ≥4 | 31 (23.8) | 99 (76.2) | |
| Insurance | |||
| None | 40 (20.0) | 160 (80.0) | 0.32 |
| Insured | 2 (10.5) | 17 (89.5) | |
| Education | |||
| Did not graduate from high school | 15 (14.0) | 92 (86.0) | 0.06 |
| High school graduate or more | 27 (24.1) | 85 (75.9) | |
| County of birth | |||
| Mexico | 35 (21.3) | 129 (78.7) | 0.26 |
| Other Central American country | 2 (8.3) | 22 (91.7) | |
| South American country | 5 (20.5) | 19 (79.2) | |
| United States | 0 | 7 (100) | |
*N = 219.