Disposal of Unused and Expired Medicines within the Sunyani Municipality of Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Table 2

A summary of household respondents’ views on the impact of pharmaceutical residues on their external environment.

Question	Response (%)
	Strongly agree	Disagree somewhat	Agree somewhat	Neither agree nor disagree	Strongly disagree
Households
Taking my unused or expired medication to the pharmacy for disposal would be inconvenient?	39.8	22.0	13.5	8.0	16.8
We should only spend money on environmental problems that affect human health, not on problems that only affect other species or ecosystems.	31.0	17.3	7.5	12.3	31.8
We should try to prevent all water pollution, even if we have no evidence that a pollutant will harm humans or ecosystem health.	74.3	15.0	5.5	3.5	1.8
If an environmental problem does not affect my health or my property, I do not care about it	18.8	15.5	8.0	7.5	50.3
Pharmacies and over-the-counter medication shops
We should only spend money on environmental problems that affect human health, not on problems that only affect other species or ecosystems.	28.6	17.1	5.7	5.7	42.9
We should try to prevent all water pollution, even if we have no evidence that a pollutant will harm human or ecosystem health.	60.0	11.4	11.4	2.9	14.3
If an environmental problem does not affect my health or my property, I do not care about it.	20.0	5.7	8.6	2.9	62.9
Taking unused or expired medication to the FDA or wholesalers for disposal is inconvenient?	42.9	17.1	14.3	8.6	14.3