Children may also hold misconceptions about medicines. Dawood et al. (2015), in their study
based in Malaysia, found that the beliefs that children hold are influenced by their age, gender, race
as well as their parents’ education level, occupation and socio-economic status. The children in
Dawood et al.’s study were generally found to have inadequate knowledge and some misconceptions. Some believed that bitter medicine works better than non-bitter medicine, although