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Family self-medication and antibiotics abuse for children and juveniles in a Chinese city

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  • Bi, Peng
  • Tong, Shilu
  • Parton, Kevin A.

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To identify the determinants of self-medication and antibiotics abuse by parents treating their children aged between 2 and 18 over the previous year, an investigation was conducted in Hefei City, China in April, 1995. A total of 1596 students from a kindergarten, a primary school and a high school were included in the study, and 1459 completed questionnaires were collected (the response rate: 91.4%). The results showed the rate of parental self-medication for their children in the sample was 59.4%. It increased with children's age; about 51% of children had received parental self-medication on six or more occasions during the 1-year period and 32.8% on four to five occasions; there were associations between parental self-prescribers and sources of medicine and severity of disease. The rate of antibiotics abuse was 35.7%. Logistic regression analysis showed that there were significant associations between self-medication and payment of the mother's medical fees by employers, severity of diseases as well as the mother's educational level.

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  • Bi, Peng & Tong, Shilu & Parton, Kevin A., 2000. "Family self-medication and antibiotics abuse for children and juveniles in a Chinese city," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 50(10), pages 1445-1450, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:50:y:2000:i:10:p:1445-1450
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    1. Currie, Janet & Lin, Wanchuan & Zhang, Wei, 2011. "Patient knowledge and antibiotic abuse: Evidence from an audit study in China," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 30(5), pages 933-949.
    2. Jin, Lei, 2010. "From mainstream to marginal? Trends in the use of Chinese medicine in China from 1991 to 2004," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 71(6), pages 1063-1067, September.
    3. Yu Zhang & John Kabba & Jie Chang & Wenjing Ji & Shan Zhu & Jiale Yu & Sen Xu & Yu Fang, 2018. "A School-Based Educational Intervention for School-Aged Children and Caregivers about Rational Use of Antibiotics in Urban Areas of Shaanxi Province: A Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Resea," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(9), pages 1-10, September.
    4. Di Pei & Gary Kreps & Xiaoquan Zhao, 2023. "The Role of Uncertainty and Negative Emotion in Chinese Parents’ Self-Medication of Children with Antibiotics," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(16), pages 1-14, August.
    5. Janet Currie & Wanchuan Lin & Juanjuan Meng, 2012. "Using Audit Studies to Test for Physician Induced Demand: The Case of Antibiotic Abuse in China," NBER Working Papers 18153, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    6. Wang, Nan Christine, 2020. "Understanding antibiotic overprescribing in China: A conversation analysis approach," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 262(C).
    7. Hui Pan & Binglin Cui & Dangui Zhang & Jeremy Farrar & Frieda Law & William Ba-Thein, 2012. "Prior Knowledge, Older Age, and Higher Allowance Are Risk Factors for Self-Medication with Antibiotics among University Students in Southern China," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(7), pages 1-8, July.
    8. Helen Lambert & Meixuan Chen & Christie Cabral, 2019. "Antimicrobial resistance, inflammatory responses: a comparative analysis of pathogenicities, knowledge hybrids and the semantics of antibiotic use," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 5(1), pages 1-13, December.
    9. Xiaomin Wang & Leesa Lin & Ziming Xuan & Lu Li & Xudong Zhou, 2018. "Keeping Antibiotics at Home Promotes Self-Medication with Antibiotics among Chinese University Students," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(4), pages 1-13, April.

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