Self-Medication in University Students from the City of Mansoura, Egypt

Table 4

Adjusted and crude analysis of the variables associated with self-medication.

	Self-medicating	Not self-medicating	value	Univariate analysis; OR (CI)	Multivariate analysis; OR (CI)
Sociodemographic characters
Student age			0.000
Mother age			0.083
Father age			0.02
Sex
Female	411 (65.8)	214 (34.2)	0.002	1.7 (1.2–2.4)
Male (R)	92 (52.6)	83 (47.4)
Residence
Urban	274 (68.2)	128 (31.8)	0.002	1.6 (1.2–2.1)	1.4 (1.1–1.9)
Rural (R)	229 (57.5)	169 (42.5)
Education
Medical	301 (72.4)	115 (27.6)	0.000	2.4 (1.8–3.2)	2.2 (1.6–2.9)
Nonmedical (R)	202 (52.6)	182 (47.4)
Father education
Illiterate (R)	27 (46.6)	31 (53.4)
Primary and preparatory	57 (54.8)	47 (45.2)	0.31	1.4 (0.7–2.8)
Secondary	132 (67.3)	64 (32.7)	0.004	2.4 (1.3–4.5)
University and higher	287 (64.9)	155 (35.1)	0.006	2.1 (1.2–3.8)
Mother education
Illiterate (R)	42 (47.2)	47 (52.8)	0.16
Primary and preparatory	52 (57.8)	38 (42.2)		1.5 (0.8–2.9)
Secondary	149 (62.6)	89 (37.4)	0.011	1.9 (1.1–3.2)
University and higher	260 (67.9)	123 (32.1)	0.0002	2.4 (1.4–3.9)
Marital status
Never married	35 (48.6)	37 (51.4)	0.009	0.5 (0.32–0.86)
Ever married (R)	468 (64.3)	260 (35.7)
Grades
1st grades	197 (61.0)	126 (39.0)	0.37	0.9 (0.65–1.17)
Final grades (R)	306 (64.2)	171 (35.8)
Health-related factors
Current health condition
Excellent	46 (54.8)	38 (45.2)	0.9	1 (0.6–1.6)	1.3 (0.74–2.3)
Good	329 (67.7)	157 (32.3)	0.002	1.7 (1.2–2.3)	2.0 (1.4–2.9)
Fair (R)	128 (55.7)	102 (44.3)
Degree of care about health
Careful	204 (56.5)	157 (43.5)	0.001	0.61 (0.5–0.8)	0.5 (0.4–0.9)
Careless	299 (68.1)	140 (31.9)
Drug storage at home pharmacy
No	78 (49.7)	79 (50.3)	0.58	1.28 (0.5–3.4)	1.3 (0.5–3.4)
Yes	415 (66.9)	205 (33.1)	0.02	2.6 (1.1–6.6)	2.4 (1.0–5.9)
I do not know (R)	10 (43.5)	13 (56.5)

Model %, ,   % correctly predicted = 67.8%, and constant = −0.974.