Objective  To examine health satisfaction and attitude towards shared medication and their influencing factors among community residents in Wuxi city of Jiangsu province for providing evidences to the improvement of community health service and population health in the city.

  Methods  We conducted a questionnaire survey in May 2017 among 1 360 permanent residents aged 15 years and above selected using stratified random sampling in communities in Wuxi city. Chi-square test and multivariate logistic regression analysis were adopted in statistical analyses.

  Results  Totally 1 062 of the residents completed the survey. The proportion of the participants reporting the usage of four or more common medical devices (including phygmomanometers, body fat calculator, weighing scale, thermometer, and glucometer) at home was higher among the medical personnel surveyed than among those with other occupations (18.30% 22/120 vs. 10.83% 102/942) and the ratio of medical personnel surveyed having regular physical examination was also higher than that of participants with other occupations (88.33% vs. 37.47%). Multiple logistic regression analysis demonstrated that education, items of common medical devices (three or more) used at home, frequency of physical examination, and positive attitude towards shared medication were correlated with satisfaction to self-health among the participants with occupations other than medical personnel.

  Conclusion  The health knowledge and behavior are at a good level generally and correlated with education, frequency of physical examination and positive attitude towards shared medication among community residents.