Disposal practice and factors associated with unused medicines in Malaysia: a cross-sectional study

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Table 5 Predictor of “having unused medicines” in multivariate analysis

Variables^a	B	S.E.	Significance	Odds Ratio	95% C.I.
Variables^a	B	S.E.	Significance	Odds Ratio	Lower	Upper
Age	− 0.005	0.007	0.525	0.995	0.981	1.010
Ethinicity			0.939
Chinese	−0.108	0.237	0.648	0.897	0.564	1.428
Indian	−0.110	0.310	0.722	0.896	0.488	1.645
Other	−0.514	1.409	0.715	0.598	0.038	9.466
Gender	−0.078	0.187	0.675	0.925	0.641	1.333
Education			0.919
Secondary	0.031	0.260	0.906	1.031	0.619	1.718
Tertiary	−0.055	0.288	0.849	0.947	0.539	1.664
Acute Illnesses	3.396	0.737	0.000	29.844	7.037	126.559
Pay for Medicines	1.794	0.233	0.000	6.012	3.811	9.485
Advised Disposal	−0.292	0.191	0.127	0.747	0.514	1.086
Perceived Environmental Risk			0.092
Medium	0.386	0.291	0.185	1.472	0.832	2.604
High	−0.180	0.216	0.405	0.836	0.548	1.275
Willingness to participate in MRP	−0.923	0.353	0.009	2.517	1.260	5.028
Constant	0.927	0.566	2.685	2.527

^a. The reference categories for the variables are as follows: Race: Malay; Gender: Male; Pay for medicine: no; Education: None & Primary; Acute illnesses: no; Advised on Disposal: no; Perceived Environmental Risk: Low; Unwilling to participate in MRP: Yes

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