Table 6.
Predictors of Self-Medication with Antibiotics Based on Multivariate Regression Analysis
| Self-Medication | Crude | Adjusted | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR (95% CI) | p value | OR (95% CI) | p value | |
| Gender | ||||
| Female | 1 | 1 | ||
| Male | 2.00 (0.77, 5.18) | 0.154 | 1.83 (0.69, 4.83) | 0.225 |
| Student Category | ||||
| Non-biology | 1 | 1 | ||
| Biology | 0.73 (0.29, 1.85) | 0.511 | 0.62 (0.22, 1.78) | 0.376 |
| Knowledge about antibiotics | ||||
| Poor | 1 | 1 | ||
| Moderate | 0.14 (0.02, 1.19) | 0.071 | 0.16 (0.02, 1.32) | 0.089 |
| Good | 0.98 (0.38, 2.52) | 0.968 | 1.11 (0.39, 3.20) | 0.844 |