Out-of-Hospital Administration of Medication without Prescription and Associated Factors among Preschool Children
Table 1
Nonprescribed medicines: administration of antipyretics-analgesics (AA) according to child’s symptoms.
Active substance
Fever ,
Fever & pain ,
Cold ,
High fever ,
Localized pain ,
Pain ,
Cough ,
Total ,
Acetaminophen
1255 (57.1)
160 (66.1)
88 (63.8)
42 (40.8)
27 (61.4)
7 (77.8)
2 (66.7)
1581 (57.8)
Mefenamic acid
773 (35.2)
60 (24.8)
42 (30.4)
45 (43.7)
12 (27.3)
1 (11.1)
1 (33.3)
934 (34.1)
Tolfenamic acid
96 (4.4)
11 (4.6)
4 (3.0)
7 (6.8)
0 (0.0)
0 (0.0)
0 (0.0)
118 (4.3)
Ibuprofen
70 (3.2)
10 (4.1)
3 (2.2)
9 (8.7)
4 (9.1)
1 (11.1)
0 (0.0)
97 (3.6)
Acetylsalicylic acid
3 (0.2)
1 (0.4)
1 (0.7)
0 (0.0)
1 (2.3)
0 (0.0)
0 (0.0)
6 (0.2)
Total (%) of medicines
2197 (100.0)
242 (100.0)
138 (100.0)
103 (100.0)
44 (100.0)
9 (100.0)
3 (100.0)
2736 (100.0)
Total (%) of parents
1379
180 (10.2)
92 (5.2)
68 (3.9)
39 (2.2)
8 (0.5)
2 (0.1)
1768 (100.0)
: number (%) of AA medicines administered in total for each symptom. : number (%) of parents administering AA for each symptom. (%) of each AA formulation administered for each symptom over the total number of AA given for the same symptom. (%) of each AA formulation administered for all symptoms over the total number of medicines. number (%) of parents administering AA for fever over the total number of parents using AA for all symptoms.
