Unsafe storage of household medicines: results from a cross-sectional study of four-year-olds from the 2004 Pelotas birth cohort (Brazil)

Table 1 Storage type and location of household medicines in families with children four-year-olds from the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort (Brazil)

Storage type and location	N	%
Storage locations
Kitchen	2166	57.0
Bathroom	235	6.2
Child’s bedroom	1040	27.4
Other bedroom	985	25.9
Other room	255	6.7
Medicines stored unlocked in a drawer or a cabinet (N = 3797)*	3072	80.9
Medicine stored unlocked in a drawer or cabinets installed below eye level of an average adult (N = 3072)	813	26.5
Unsafe storage*(N = 3797)	813	21.4

Detailed legend: * 2 missing (not answer)
**When medicines were kept in an unlocked drawer or cabinet and at a height below the eye level of an average adult
Total sample N = 3799

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