Table 4.
Use of medicine information sources across gender, age group (≤65 years), regular medicine use, and health professionals (can use more than one source).
| Sources | Total (N=303), n (%) | Women (n=196), n (%) | Aged 16-65 years (n=196), n (%) | Regular medicine use (n=210), n (%) | Health professionals (n=88), n (%) |
| Physicians | 191 (63.0) | 126 (64.3) | 117 (59.7) | 151 (71.9)a | 45 (51)a |
| Pharmacists | 142 (46.9) | 108 (55.1)a | 108 (55.1)a | 111 (52.8)b | 56 (64)a |
| Package leaflets | 128 (40.9) | 94 (48)a | 92 (47)b | 99 (47)b | 44 (50) |
| Internet | 125 (41.3) | 80 (41) | 105 (54)a | 86 (41) | 48 (54)a |
| Relatives/friends | 31 (10) | 18 (9) | 25 (13) | 20 (9) | 8 (9) |
| Advertisements | 8 (3) | 6 (3) | 6 (3) | 5 (2) | 2 (2) |
| Otherc | 19 (7) | 13 (7) | 16 (8) | 13 (6) | 13 (15)c |
| No use of MId sources last year | 36 (12) | 20 (10) | 19 (10) | 11 (5) | 11 (12) |
aP<.01.
bP<.05.
cOther includes nurses, being health personnel themselves, and physician’s desktop reference.
dMI: medicine information.