Self-Medication Practices among the Adolescent Population of South Karnataka, India

Table 4

Distribution of association between self-medication and selected variables (N: 173).

Variables	Use of self-medication
	Using (f)	Not using (f)		df	value
Age in years
16	50	12	1.413	2	0.493
17	91	29
18	32	6
Gender
Male	80	17	1.514	1	0.143
Female	93	30
Area of living
Rural	153	40	1.172	1	0.230
Urban	20	7
Type of family
Extended	17	7	9.615	2	0.008
Joint	44	10
Nuclear	112	30
Education of father
No formal education	8	6	13.791	5	0.017
Primary	76	10
High school	48	17
Preuniversity	27	8
Graduate	14	6
Education of mother
Primary	74	15	14.633	4	0.005
High school	56	10
Preuniversity	30	8
Graduate	8	6
Postgraduate	5	8

Significant at 0.05 level.