Social determinants of prescribed and non-prescribed medicine use

Table 2 Number of women 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 women, 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	242	41.8	1	1		14	31.7	1	1
35-54	232	40.6	0.95	1.07	0.81-1.41	28	21.7	0.61	0.61	0.24-1.53
55-64	47	27.0	*0.51	0.58	0.38-0.90	26	20.8	0.57	0.65	0.24-1.72
> = 65	51	20.4	*0.35	0.54	0.31-0.95	60	16.7	*0.43	0.58	0.20-1.64
Total	572	36.3				128	19.5
Social class
I-II	147	39.4	1	1		7	13.5	1	1
III	177	33.4	*0.77	0.82	0.61-1.10	22	17.3	*1.34	1.56	0.58-4.16
IV-V	236	38.7	0.97	1.00	0.75-1.34	86	21.4	*1.74	2.14	0.85-5.36
Employment status
Salaried employees	297	34.8	1	1		38	21.2	1	1
Housewifes	113	38.1	*1.15	0.97	0.70-1.34	53	14.6	*0.63	0.49	0.26-0.93
Unemployed women	35	46.0	*1.59	0.97	0.61-1.53	5	35.3	*2.02	0.95	0.31-2.93
Retired women	29	20.8	*0.49	0.66	0.35-1.25	26	9.6	*0.39	0.45	0.20-1.01
Students	97	40.6	*1.28	1.37	0.96-1.96	4	15.9	0.71	0.72	0.16-3.19
Type of PHC
PCR 1984-93	101	39.7	1	1		28	14.1	1	1
PCR 1994-98	118	32.9	*0.74	0.79	0.56-1.11	33	17.9	*1.33	1.58	0.84-2.96
No PCR	155	36.9	*0.88	0.88	0.64-1.23	50	20.8	*1.61	1.49	0.84-2.65
Mutual or private	107	35.1	*0.82	0.91	0.62-1.31	11	18.1	*1.35	1.32	0.56-3.07
No usual PHC	86	43.7	*1.17	1.24	0.83-1.85	7	25.4	*2.08	3.00	1.05-8.55

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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