Socio-economic differences in prescription and OTC drug use in Dutch adolescents
OBJECTIVE: To detect whether there were socio-economic differences in the overall use of prescription and OCT drugs among adolescents. METHODS: This study was a secondary analysis of questionnaire data collected to investigate socio-economic differences in health risk behaviour and decision-making. RESULTS: About 20% of the 741 girls and 10% of the 736 boys reported using at least one prescription drug in the past 14 days, oral contraceptives excluded. For OTC drugs these percentages were 45% and 24%, respectively. No statistically significant socio-economic differences in prescription drug us... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2003 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Tobi , H , Meijer , W M , Tuinstra , J & de Jong-van den Berg , L T 2003 , ' Socio-economic differences in prescription and OTC drug use in Dutch adolescents ' , Pharmacy World & Science , vol. 25 , no. 5 , pp. 203 - 206 . |
Schlagwörter: | adolescent drug-utilisation / gender OTC drugs / prescription drugs / socio-economic factors / the Netherlands / HEALTH INEQUALITIES / NETHERLANDS / CHILDREN / MORBIDITY / BRITAIN |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27209041 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/0130f8d5-9a08-45e4-8c2a-88c2ccf0f13f |