Over-the-Counter Drugs and Complementary Medications Use among Children in Southern Italy

Table 2

Result of the logistic regression model for estimates of associations of attitude on nonprescription drugs (NPDs) with potential determinants of their use.

Attitude on NPDs^a use; Log likelihood = −360.57, , 10 df, , and number of participants = 705
Variable	OR	SE	95% CI
Sociodemographic profile
Number of children in the family, continuous	2.04	0.32	1.50–2.78	<0.001
Age of respondent (<35 years old as reference)	1.20	0.23	0.82–1.75	0.35
Marital status (other^b as reference)	0.58	0.35	0.18–1.88	0.36
Education level (<8 years of schooling as reference)	0.81	0.21	0.49–1.33	0.40
Children’s health status
Limitations in schoolwork or activities with friends because of physical health problems (absence of limitations as reference)	3.28	1.01	1.79–6.02	<0.001
Prescribed medicine regularly used by the child (none as reference)	1.81	0.67	0.87–3.74	0.11
General health perception by the parents (poor/fair as reference)	0.69	0.28	0.30–1.55	0.36
Source of information about medications
Influences on medications selection (only pediatrician as reference)
Pediatrician and other source^c	Backward elimination
Only other source^c	3.13	1.05	1.62–6.04	0.001
Utilization of product label or other information before administering the drug (no as reference)	0.73	0.17	0.47–1.16	0.18
Utilization of dosing recommendations provided on the product label (never/hardly ever/sometimes/often as reference)	2.90	0.75	1.75–4.80	<0.001

Nonprescription drugs.
^bSingle, separated/divorced, or widow.
^cInternet, books, nurse, friends/family, pharmacist, media (newspaper/TV/magazines/radio), child care/teacher, or personal experience.