Perceptions and trends in the use of community pharmacies in Ghana

Table 1 1 Socio-economic characteristics of respondents

	Users		Non-Users		Overall		P-value
	Frequency	%	Frequency	%	Frequency	%
Gender							0.071^*
Male	163	39.3	41	50	204	41
Female	252	60.7	41	50	293	59
Marital Status							0.104
Married	238	57.4	43	52.4	281	56.5
Consensual Union	8	1.9	2	2.4	10	2
Divorced	20	4.8	2	2.4	22	4.4
Separated	37	8.9	2	2.4	39	7.8
Widowed	33	8	9	11	42	8.5
Never Married	79	19	24	29.3	103	20.7
Religion						0.521	0.521
No Religion	18	4.3	2	2.4	20	4.02
Christian	370	89.2	74	90.2	444	89.3
Muslim	26	6.3	5	6.1	31	6.2
Traditional	1	0.2	1	1.2	2	0.4
Educational Level							0.536
None	43	10.4	12	14.6	55	11.1
Primary	63	15.2	15	18.3	78	15.7
Secondary	270	65.1	49	59.8	319	64.2
Tertiary	39	9.4	6	7.3	45	9.1
Employment Status							0.214
Unemployed	29	7	9	11	38	7.7
Employed	386	93	73	89	459	92.3
Location Type							0.153
Rural	105	25.3	25	30.5	130	26.2
Urban	310	74.7	57	69.5	367	73.8
Insurance Status							0.001^**
Yes	253	61	33	40.2	286	57.5
No	162	39	49	59.8	211	42.5
Type Of Insurance							0,718
Private Insurance	1	0.4	0	0	1	0.3
NHIS	252	99.6	33	100	285	99.7
Had Minor Ailments							0.000^**
Yes	343	82.7	7	8.5	350	70.4
No	72	17.3	75	91.5	147	29.6

Source: Constructed by authors based on field data ^* Significant At 1% ^** Significant At 10%. (N = 497)

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