Table 3.
Self-medication according to different characteristics (n=1000)
| Characteristics | Self-medication in the last 12 months | p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | ||||
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Total | 167 | 16.7 | 833 | 83.3 | |
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 53 | 12.6 | 368 | 87.4 | <0.01 |
| Female | 114 | 19.7 | 465 | 80.3 | |
| Occupations | |||||
| Work in agriculture/fishery/forestry sector | 121 | 15.8 | 643 | 84.2 | <0.01 |
| White-collar worker | 15 | 36.6 | 26 | 63.4 | |
| Business | 6 | 10.9 | 49 | 89.1 | |
| Self-employed | 8 | 15.1 | 45 | 84.9 | |
| Other | 17 | 19.5 | 70 | 80.5 | |
| Education | |||||
| Less than high school | 113 | 15.8 | 604 | 84.2 | 0.37 |
| High school | 36 | 18.2 | 162 | 81.8 | |
| More than high school | 18 | 21.2 | 67 | 78.8 | |
| Ethnic | |||||
| Kinh | 61 | 13.6 | 389 | 86.4 | <0.01 |
| Gia rai | 29 | 234 | 95 | 76.6 | |
| E de | 13 | 29.6 | 31 | 70.5 | |
| Xo dang | 10 | 14.1 | 61 | 85.9 | |
| Mnong | 21 | 20.6 | 81 | 79.4 | |
| Cil | 6 | 9.8 | 55 | 90.2 | |
| Nung | 3 | 9.1 | 30 | 90.9 | |
| Ro ngao | 16 | 24.6 | 49 | 75.4 | |
| Other | 8 | 16.0 | 42 | 84.0 | |
| Household economic (government’s classification) | |||||
| Poor | 32 | 17.9 | 147 | 82.1 | 0.21 |
| Near-poor | 26 | 21.9 | 93 | 78.2 | |
| Nonpoor | 109 | 15.5 | 593 | 84.5 | |
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Age | 36.2 | 12.7 | 36.8 | 12.6 | 0.47 |
| Number of members in the family | 4.7 | 1.7 | 4.9 | 1.8 | 0.24 |
| Number of children in the family | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.12 |
| Number of members having health insurance in family | 4.1 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 2.1 | 0.66 |
| Annual household income (million VND) | 68.9 | 75.0 | 81.0 | 106.7 | 0.01 |