Research Article
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 | χ2/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 |
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Significant at value <0.05. |