Table 4.
Adjusted and crude analysis of the variables associated with self-medication.
| Self-medicating N = 503 |
Not self-medicating N = 297 |
p value | Univariate analysis OR (CI) |
Multivariate analysis OR (CI) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sociodemographic characters | |||||
| Student age | 19.9 ± 0.7 | 20.1 ± 0.7 | 0.000 | ||
| Mother age | 45.7 ± 5.1 | 45.1 ± 5.1 | 0.083 | ||
| Father age | 53.9 ± 12.2 | 52.1 ± 5.9 | 0.02 | ||
| Sex | |||||
| Female | 411 (65.8) | 214 (34.2) | 0.002 | 1.7 (1.2–2.4) | |
| Male (R) | 92 (52.6) | 83 (47.4) | |||
| Residence | |||||
| Urban | 274 (68.2) | 128 (31.8) | 0.002 | 1.6 (1.2–2.1) | 1.4 (1.1–1.9) |
| Rural (R) | 229 (57.5) | 169 (42.5) | |||
| Education | |||||
| Medical | 301 (72.4) | 115 (27.6) | 0.000 | 2.4 (1.8–3.2) | 2.2 (1.6–2.9) |
| Nonmedical (R) | 202 (52.6) | 182 (47.4) | |||
| Father education | |||||
| Illiterate (R) | 27 (46.6) | 31 (53.4) | |||
| Primary and preparatory | 57 (54.8) | 47 (45.2) | 0.31 | 1.4 (0.7–2.8) | |
| Secondary | 132 (67.3) | 64 (32.7) | 0.004 | 2.4 (1.3–4.5) | |
| University and higher | 287 (64.9) | 155 (35.1) | 0.006 | 2.1 (1.2–3.8) | |
| Mother education | |||||
| Illiterate (R) | 42 (47.2) | 47 (52.8) | 0.16 | ||
| Primary and preparatory | 52 (57.8) | 38 (42.2) | 1.5 (0.8–2.9) | ||
| Secondary | 149 (62.6) | 89 (37.4) | 0.011 | 1.9 (1.1–3.2) | |
| University and higher | 260 (67.9) | 123 (32.1) | 0.0002 | 2.4 (1.4–3.9) | |
| Marital status | |||||
| Never married | 35 (48.6) | 37 (51.4) | 0.009 | 0.5 (0.32–0.86) | |
| Ever married (R) | 468 (64.3) | 260 (35.7) | |||
| Grades | |||||
| 1st grades | 197 (61.0) | 126 (39.0) | 0.37 | 0.9 (0.65–1.17) | |
| Final grades (R) | 306 (64.2) | 171 (35.8) | |||
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| Health-related factors | |||||
| Current health condition | |||||
| Excellent | 46 (54.8) | 38 (45.2) | 0.9 | 1 (0.6–1.6) | 1.3 (0.74–2.3) |
| Good | 329 (67.7) | 157 (32.3) | 0.002 | 1.7 (1.2–2.3) | 2.0 (1.4–2.9) |
| Fair (R) | 128 (55.7) | 102 (44.3) | |||
| Degree of care about health | |||||
| Careful | 204 (56.5) | 157 (43.5) | 0.001 | 0.61 (0.5–0.8) | 0.5 (0.4–0.9) |
| Careless | 299 (68.1) | 140 (31.9) | |||
| Drug storage at home pharmacy | |||||
| No | 78 (49.7) | 79 (50.3) | 0.58 | 1.28 (0.5–3.4) | 1.3 (0.5–3.4) |
| Yes | 415 (66.9) | 205 (33.1) | 0.02 | 2.6 (1.1–6.6) | 2.4 (1.0–5.9) |
| I do not know (R) | 10 (43.5) | 13 (56.5) | |||
Model χ2 = 82%, p < 0.0001, % correctly predicted = 67.8%, and constant = −0.974.