Prevalence of borrowing and sharing prescription medicines and associated socio-demographic factors: findings from COBERS health centres in northern Uganda

Autor: Bongomin Bodo, Sylvia Awor, Peter Akera, Ronald Wanyama, Emmanuel Otto Omony, Pamela Atim, Kenneth Luryama Moi, Hussein Oria, James Henry Obol, David Musoke, Patrick Olwedo Odong, Felix Kaducu
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Male
Socio demographics
Health Behavior
Logistic regression
COBERS health centres
0302 clinical medicine
Health care
Odds Ratio
Pharmacology (medical)
Uganda
030212 general & internal medicine
Salary
Child
Aged
80 and over
1. No poverty
Middle Aged
3. Good health
Religion
Female
0305 other medical science
Research Article
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Prescription Drugs
Adolescent
Pharmacology toxicology
Disease cluster
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
Sex Factors
lcsh:RA1190-1270
Borrowing and sharing prescription medicines
medicine
Humans
Medical prescription
Occupations
lcsh:Toxicology. Poisons
Aged
Pharmacology
030505 public health
Marital Status
business.industry
Public health
lcsh:RM1-950
Socio-demographic factors
lcsh:Therapeutics. Pharmacology
Cross-Sectional Studies
business
Gulu University
Demography
Zdroj: BMC Pharmacology & Toxicology
BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2018)
ISSN: 2050-6511
Popis: Background The use of prescription medications without the involvement of medical professionals is a growing public health concern. Therefore this study was conducted to determine the prevalence of borrowing and sharing prescription medicines and associated socio-demographic factors among community members who had sought health care from COBERS health centres. Methods We conducted analytical cross – sectional study among former patients who sought treatment during the two months period prior to data collection in nine COBERS health centres. We used cluster proportional-to-size sampling method to get the numbers of research participants to be selected for interview from each COBERS site and logistic regression model was used to assess the associations. Results The prevalence of borrowing prescription medication was found to be 35.9% (95% CI 33.5–38.2%) and sharing prescription medication was 32.7% (95% CI 30.4–34.9%). The Socio-demographic factors associated with borrowing prescription medicines were: age group ≤19 years (AOR = 2.64, 95%CI 1.47–4.74, p-value = 0.001); age group 20–29 years (AOR = 2.78, 95%CI 1.71–4.50, p-value≤0.001); age group 30–39 years (AOR = 1.90, 95%CI 1.18–3.06, p-value = 0.009); age group 40–49 (AOR = 1.83, 95%CI 1.15–2.92, p-value = 0.011); being a female (AOR = 2.01, 1.58–2.55, p-value
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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