The Relationship between Fear of COVID-19 and Self-Medication and the Rate of Antibiotic Use in Patients Referred to COVID-19

Table 6

Measuring the relationship between the three variables of corona fear, self-medication, and self-medication with antibiotics with demographic variables (age, sex, marital status, economic status, education, employment status, and underlying disease).

Variables		Self-mediation with antibiotics	Fear of corona	Self-medication
		Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Gender	Female	22.7 ± 2.8	12.4 ± 4.2	28.9 ± 4.6
	Male	21.7 ± 3.4	11.1 ± 4.3	27.8 ± 5.1
value		0.017	0.020	0.101
Marital status	Single	22.1 ± 3.07	11.8 ± 4.2	28.8 ± 4.8
	Married	22.3 ± 3.2	11.6 ± 4.4	27.8 ± 5.1
value		0.427	0.597	0.167
Status of housing	Rent	22.2 ± 3.04	11.8 ± 5.1	28.1 ± 4.8
	Private	22.09 ± 3.4	11.6 ± 3.9	28.06 ± 5
	With family	22.3 ± 2.9	11.7 ± 4.2	28.7 ± 4.8
	Others	20.4 ± 3.2	12 ± 3.7	26.4 ± 6.5
value		0.959	0.964	0.572
Job	Employed	22.3 ± 3.04	10.9 ± 4.1	28.6 ± 4.7
	Household	22.2 ± 2.7	12.8 ± 4.4	27.2 ± 5.09
	Student	22.1 ± 3.4	13.1 ± 4.2	29.04 ± 5.1
	No job	21.8 ± 3.4	11.9 ± 4.4	27.6 ± 5.3
value		0.880	0.009	0.307
Income	Weak	21.5 ± 3.4	13.01 ± 5.1	26.8 ± 5.3
	Medium	22.4 ± 3.07	11.4 ± 3.9	28.8 ± 4.5
	Good	22.5 ± 2.8	10.8 ± 3.6	28.7 ± 5.4
value		0.156	0.072	0.030
Education	Lower than diploma	19.2 ± 2.7	13.4 ± 4.4	24.9 ± 4.7
	Diploma	22.4 ± 3.09	12.3 ± 4.6	29 ± 4.8
	University education	22.3 ± 3.1	11.4 ± 4.1	28.3 ± 4.9
value		0.010	0.238	0.039
Underlying disease	Yes	19.6 ± 2.4	12.5 ± 3.9	24.9 ± 4.7
	No	22.5 ± 3.09	11.6 ± 4.3	28.6 ± 4.8
value		0.001	0.402	0.001