Social determinants of prescribed and non-prescribed medicine use

Table 1 Number of men who use non-prescribed medicine (n), prevalence of non-prescribed medicine use in % and bivariate and multivariate association between non-prescribed medicine use during the preceding 15 days and independent variables in men, by perceived health status.

	Good perceived health status					Poor perceived health status
Variables	n	Prev.	Bivar OR	Mvar OR	95% CI	n	Prev.	Bivar OR	Mvar OR	95% CI
Age
15-34	239	37.0	1	1		7	19.3	1	1
35-54	192	36.9	0.99	0.94	0.72-1.24	16	17.3	0.87	0.85	0.30-2.39
55-64	51	27.4	*0.64	0.59	0.39-0.89	26	28.3	1.64	1.84	0.65-5.15
> = 65	47	22.6	*0.49	0.41	0.19-0.87	17	9.2	0.42	0.61	0.14-2.61
Total	528	33.9				66	16.4
Social class
I-II	190	38.7	1	1		6	9.2	1	1
III	139	30.7	*0.71	0.72	0.54-0.95	14	12.4	1.41	0.88	0.29-2.64
IV-V	195	31.8	*0.73	0.75	0.57-0.98	45	18.6	*2.27	1.36	0.48-3.81
Employment status
Salaried employees	365	33.0	1	1		34	21.4	1	1
Unemployed men	31	31.0	0.91	1.11	0.69-1.79	7	18.3	0.82	0.62	0.23-1.68
Retired men	55	34.3	1.05	1.21	0.61-2.39	22	12.1	*0.51	0.52	0.17-1.58
Students	73	31.2	0.92	0.89	0.62-1.28	0	0	0	0	0
Type of PHC
PCR 1984-93	96	34.7	1	1		18	17.0	1	1
PCR 1994-98	93	31.3	*0.85	0.86	0.60-1.22	18	17.1	1.01	1.13	0.50-2.51
No PCR	161	34.7	0.99	1.05	0.76-1.46	22	15.5	0.89	0.77	0.36-1.63
Mutual or private	90	32.6	0.91	1.06	0.72-1.54	4	18.5	1.11	0.54	0.15-1.94
No usual PHC	87	37.1	1.11	1.24	0.84-1.82	4	22.3	*1.41	1.40	0.38-5.15

Barcelona Health Interview Survey, 2000.
PHC indicates primary health care; n, number of cases; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; Bivar OR, bivariate odds ratio; Mvar OR, multivariate odds ratio; PCR, primary care reform.
* p value < 0.05

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