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Sociodemographic factors associated with current smoking among CHS Students, March 2013.
<p>COR = Crude Odds Ratio, AOR = Adjusted OR, CI = Confidence Interval, Exchange rate: 1 USD = 18.8 Ethiopian Birr (ETB), <b><sup>¶</sup></b>Adjusted for gender, ethnic group and year of study.</p><p>Sociodemographic factors associated with current smoking among CHS Students, March 2013.</p
Parent and drug related factors associated with current smoking among CHS Students, March 2013.
¶<p>Adjusted for mother’s education, friend smoking, alcohol consumption, khat chewing, taking illicit drugs and smoking harmful.</p><p>Parent and drug related factors associated with current smoking among CHS Students, March 2013.</p
Type of requests for self-medication (n = 270).
<p>Type of requests for self-medication (n = 270).</p
Sources of advice for self-medication (n = 270).
<p>Sources of advice for self-medication (n = 270).</p
Prevalence of smoking among CHS Students, March 2013 (N = 193).
<p><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0111033#pone-0111033-g001" target="_blank">Figure 1</a> indicates the prevalence of smoking among CHS students by gender. Out of the 193 respondents, 57 (29.5%) of the students were current smokers while 5 (2.6%) were former smokers.</p
Type of illnesses reported by the study participants (n = 270).
<p>Figure 1 shows the type of illnesses reported by the study participants that prompted them for self-medication. The major illnesses reported were headache or fever (20.7%), GI disease (17.3%), RTI (15.9%), eye disease (14.0%), skin disease/injury (13.1) and dysmenorrhea (11.3%).</p
Socio-demographic characteristics of study participants (n = 270).
<p>Exchange rate: 1 USD = 18.8 Ethiopian Birr (ETB).</p
Selected characteristics of current smokers in CHS, March 2013 (N = 57).
<p>Selected characteristics of current smokers in CHS, March 2013 (N = 57).</p
Category of drugs requested for self-medication (n = 270).
<p>Figure 2 demonstrates the most frequently requested category of drugs by self-medicated respondents. The most commonly requested category of drugs were analgesics/antipyretics (20.8%), GI drugs (17.5%), respiratory drugs (14.9%), ORS (14.2%), vitamins (11.1%) and antimicrobials (8.4%).</p
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