Prevalence and Predictors of Storage of Unused Medicines among Households in Northwestern Ethiopia

Table 5

Predictors for the prevalence of unused medicines at sampled woreda-kebeles, Awi zone, Amhara regional state, Ethiopia, 2018 N = 507.

Variables	Percentage of householders	Crude odds ratio	-(<0.25) (COR)	Adjusted odds ratio	-(<0.05) (AOR)
Monthly income (ETB)
1501–2500	99 (19.5%)	3.52 (0.76,16.2)	0.106	3.82 (0.78, 18.74)	0.098
>2500	19 (3.7%)
Marital status
Single	32 (6.3%)	3.71 (0.77, 17.93)	0.102	2.03 (0.32, 12.61)	0.445
Married	430 (84.8%)	2.73 (0.93, 7.98)	0.065	1.87 (0.52, 6.66)	0.331
Widowed	18 (3.6%)
Residence
Urban	58 (11.4%)
Rural	449 (88.6%)	1.79 (0.69, 4.65)	0.230	0.83 (0.25, 2.70)	0.76
Source of payment for medicines
Health insurance	151 (29.8%)
Out of pocket	343 (67.7%)	1.72 (0.95, 3.12)	0.070	2.59 (1.30, 5.16)	0.006
Feeling medicines are expensive
Yes	287 (56.6%)	1.67 (0.98,2.85)	0.057	1.85 (0.99, 3.48)	0.053
No	220 (43.4%)
Thinking medicines have no expiry date (they can be used forever)
Yes	35 (6.9%)	8.55 (4.15, 17.61)	0.0000001	4.87 (1.97, 12.02)	0.001
No	472 (93.1%)
Sharing of medicines with others
Yes	51 (10.1%)	4.23 (2.22, 8.05)	0.00001	1.49 (0.65, 3.40)	0.339
No	456 (89.9%)
Awareness about medicines taken
Yes	322 (63.5%)
No	185 (36.5%)	2.84 (1.51, 5.35)	0.001	3.04 (1.45, 6.38)	0.003