Table 2 Customer characteristics according to type of retail drug shop (selling human medicine, animal medicine or both human and animal medicine) from observations in Bangladesh
Shop type | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Human medicine n (%) | Human and animal medicine n (%) | Animal medicine n (%) | Total n (%) | ||
All observations | Women | 161 (37.4) | 16 (15.8) | 7 (14.0) | 184 (31.6) |
Men | 270 (62.6) | 85 (84.2) | 43 (86.0) | 398 (68.4) | |
Customers with prescription (all observations) | No | 357 (83.4) | 88 (91.7) | 48 (96.0) | 493 (85.9) |
Yes | 71 (16.6) | 8 (8.3) | 2 (4.0) | 81 (14.1) | |
Customers purchasing antibiotics | No | 364 (85.0) | 85 (88.6) | 29 (58.0) | 478 (83.3) |
Yes | 64 (15.0) | 11 (11.4) | 21 (42.0) | 96 (16.7) | |
Customers purchasing antibiotics with a prescription | No | 42 (63.6) | 9 (81.8) | 20 (95.2) | 71 (74.0) |
Yes | 22 (34.3) | 2 (18.8) | 1 (4.8) | 25 (26.0) | |
Medicine sought for (all observations) | Patient (human) | 239 (55.4) | 49 (48.5) | 3 (6.0) | 291 (50.0) |
Family member | 169 (32.9) | 29 (28.7) | 2 (4.0) | 200 (34.4) | |
Animal | 3 (0.7) | 10 (9.9) | 45 (90.0) | 58 (10.0) | |
Practitioner or drug shop owner | 12 (2.8) | 8 (7.9) | 0 | 20 (3.4) | |
Not stated/missing | 11 (2.6) | 5 (5.0) | 0 | 16 (2.7) | |
Total observations | 431 | 101 | 50 | 582 | |