Table 3.

Prescribing Pattern for Medicine with a High Prescription Rate Fisher’s Exact Test on the Association of Free Healthcare Category and Been Prescribed with Medicine with a Higher Prescription Rate

Prescribing Pattern	Free Healthcare Category		P-value
	Children Under Five n=639	Pregnant Women/ Lactating Mothers n = 561
Prescriptions with vitamin/dietary supplements	317 (49.5)	313 (55.9)	0.028
Prescriptions with four or more medications	314 (49.1)	305 (54.5)	0.64
Prescriptions with a paracetamol	503 (78.6)	382 (68.2)	<0.0001
Prescriptions with an antimalarial	319 (61.1)	196 (34.8)	<0.0001
Prescriptions with a paracetamol + an NSAID	4 (0.6)	36 (6.4)	<0.0001

Notes: Statistically significant p-values (p<0.05) are bolded. NSAID, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug. The calculation was done within each category total percentage is not equal to 100%