Assessment of Self-Medication Practices and Its Associated Factors among Undergraduates of a Private University in Nigeria

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of respondents.

Characteristics	Frequency	Percentage
Gender
Male	135	37.2
Female	228	62.8
Age (years)
Less than 19	123	33.9
19–23	230	63.3
24–28	10	2.8
College
Engineering	63	17.4
Law	45	12.4
Medicine and health sciences	61	16.8
Sciences	51	14.0
Social and management sciences	143	39.4
Year of study
First	68	18.7
Second	103	28.4
Third	73	20.1
Fourth	103	28.4
Fifth	16	4.4
Religion
Christian	329	90.6
Muslim	31	8.6
Others	3	0.8
Ethnicity
Hausa	17	4.7
Igbo	82	22.6
Others	100	27.5
Yoruba	164	45.2