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

Table 3

Association between sociodemographic characteristics and self-medication practice.

Sociodemographic characteristics	Self-medication		No self-medication		χ^2/Fisher’s exact	value
	n	%	n	%
Overall	297	81.8	66	18.2
Gender
Male	96	71.1	39	28.9	16.564	<0.001
Female	201	88.2	27	11.8
Age (years)
Less than 19	92	74.8	31	25.2	8.007	0.015
19–23	198	86.1	32	13.9
24–28	7	70.0	3	30.0
Ethnicity
Hausa	13	76.5	4	23.5	0.546	0.910
Igbo	66	80.5	16	19.5
Others	83	83.0	17	17.0
Yoruba	135	82.3	29	17.7
Religion
Christianity	267	81.2	62	18.8	2.386	0.283
Islam	28	90.3	3	9.7
Others	2	66.7	1	33.3
Academic year
First	53	77.9	15	22.1	15.503	0.004
Second	74	71.8	29	28.2
Third	62	84.9	11	15.1
Fourth	92	89.3	11	10.7
Fifth	16	100.0	0	0.0
College
Engineering	48	76.2	15	23.8	11.153	0.025
Law	41	91.1	4	8.9
Medicine and health sciences	52	85.2	9	14.8
Sciences	0.35	68.6	16	31.4
Social and management sciences	121	84.6	22	15.4

Significant at value <0.05.