Table 3.
Reasons for self-medication among healthcare and non-healthcare students
| |
Healthcare |
Non-healthcare |
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | n | % | n | % | P |
| Fever |
244 |
62.10 |
137 |
48.10 |
<0.05 |
| Menstrual cramps |
206 |
52.40 |
117 |
41.10 |
0.00 |
| Muscle pain |
176 |
44.80 |
102 |
35.80 |
0.02 |
| Nausea |
127 |
32.00 |
52 |
18.20 |
<0.05 |
| Stomachache |
119 |
30.30 |
65 |
22.80 |
0.03 |
| Vomit |
98 |
24.90 |
53 |
18.60 |
0.05 |
| Allergy |
96 |
24.40 |
48 |
16.80 |
0.02 |
| Intestinal pain |
71 |
18.10 |
24 |
8.40 |
<0.05 |
| Cough | 142 | 36.10 | 105 | 36.80 | 0.04 |