Research Article
Patients’ Knowledge and Attitude toward the Disposal of Medications
Table 1
Demographic data of participants from the different pharmacy outpatient study areas.
| Demographic data of participants | Study area | ACC
| ONC
| CC
| ED
| Total | |
| Gender | M = 401 (44%) | F = 501 (56%) | M = 91 (49%) | F = 96 (51%) | M = 49 (89%) | F = 6 (11%) | M = 26 (96%) | F = 1 (4%) | M = 567 (48%) | F = 604 (52%) | Age (years) | | | | | | | | | | | 16–25 | 77 | 111 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 93 | 123 | 26–35 | 100 | 157 | 37 | 30 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 162 | 191 | 36–45 | 107 | 111 | 20 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 144 | 130 | 46–55 | 55 | 77 | 11 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 77 | 97 | 56–75 | 49 | 38 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 73 | 53 | ≥76 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 10 | Education | | | | | | | | | | | Not stated | 6 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 19 | Never went to school | 13 | 54 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 55 | Primary school | 30 | 59 | 3 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 39 | 74 | Intermediate/ Secondary school | 152 | 150 | 39 | 29 | 21 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 224 | 182 | Diploma | 22 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 21 | Bachelor degree | 133 | 203 | 29 | 28 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 184 | 235 | Postgraduate study | 31 | 25 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 34 |
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M = Male, F = Female, ACC =Ambulatory Care Center, ONC = Oncology, CC = Cardiac Center, ED = Emergency Department.
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