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The Effects of Health Education on the Awareness of Antimicrobial Resistance Among High School Students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia During 2023: A Quasi-experimental Study

Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major health threat, recently declared a crisis by the WHO, and recognized as one of the top 10 threats to global health. One of the strategies to curb AMR is interventional education to raise awareness. Therefore, this study evaluated the impact of i...

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Autores principales: Almutairi, Khalid S, Okmi, Ezzuddin A, Alnofaiei, Sabah S, Alshamari, Waleed K, Almutairi, Sultan H, Alsuwailem, Sulaiman I, Alkhaldi, Eid H
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Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10411380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37565089
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41639
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author Almutairi, Khalid S
Okmi, Ezzuddin A
Alnofaiei, Sabah S
Alshamari, Waleed K
Almutairi, Sultan H
Alsuwailem, Sulaiman I
Alkhaldi, Eid H
author_facet Almutairi, Khalid S
Okmi, Ezzuddin A
Alnofaiei, Sabah S
Alshamari, Waleed K
Almutairi, Sultan H
Alsuwailem, Sulaiman I
Alkhaldi, Eid H
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description Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major health threat, recently declared a crisis by the WHO, and recognized as one of the top 10 threats to global health. One of the strategies to curb AMR is interventional education to raise awareness. Therefore, this study evaluated the impact of interventional education on awareness of antimicrobial resistance among high school students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Methods This was a quasi-experimental study that included 120 high school students as a control group and 120 students as the experimental group. It used a questionnaire pre- and post-educational intervention, which was a lecture by trained healthcare workers. Pearson’s Chi-square test and ANOVA were used to assess the effects of the intervention, and the p-value was set at <0.05 for significance. Results Over half (53.4%) of the controls reported no prior exposure to an antibiotic awareness campaign, compared to 46.6% in the intervention (experimental) group. Half of the participants in both groups were without a family relative who works in the healthcare sector. Almost half (51.2%) in the intervention group used antibiotics compared to 48.2% of controls; 53.3% in the control group reported self-medication compared to 46.7% in the intervention group. We found a statistically significant increase in the overall mean scores regarding knowledge of antibiotics resistance before and after the education intervention in the control group (p<0.001) and intervention group (p<0.001). Post-intervention, there was a significant reduction in the mean scores of misbeliefs about antibiotic use (p<0.001). We found an improvement in the perception scores toward AMR and antibiotic resistance post-educational intervention (P=0.008), and the perception difference remained significant between the two study groups (p=0.002). Conclusion These findings showed that interventional education effectively raises awareness, knowledge, and perceptions toward AMR. Therefore, public health, medical, and scientific professionals in Saudi Arabia are urged to emphasize education to fight AMR, in addition to other strategies.
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spelling pubmed-104113802023-08-10 The Effects of Health Education on the Awareness of Antimicrobial Resistance Among High School Students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia During 2023: A Quasi-experimental Study Almutairi, Khalid S Okmi, Ezzuddin A Alnofaiei, Sabah S Alshamari, Waleed K Almutairi, Sultan H Alsuwailem, Sulaiman I Alkhaldi, Eid H Cureus Medical Education Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major health threat, recently declared a crisis by the WHO, and recognized as one of the top 10 threats to global health. One of the strategies to curb AMR is interventional education to raise awareness. Therefore, this study evaluated the impact of interventional education on awareness of antimicrobial resistance among high school students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Methods This was a quasi-experimental study that included 120 high school students as a control group and 120 students as the experimental group. It used a questionnaire pre- and post-educational intervention, which was a lecture by trained healthcare workers. Pearson’s Chi-square test and ANOVA were used to assess the effects of the intervention, and the p-value was set at <0.05 for significance. Results Over half (53.4%) of the controls reported no prior exposure to an antibiotic awareness campaign, compared to 46.6% in the intervention (experimental) group. Half of the participants in both groups were without a family relative who works in the healthcare sector. Almost half (51.2%) in the intervention group used antibiotics compared to 48.2% of controls; 53.3% in the control group reported self-medication compared to 46.7% in the intervention group. We found a statistically significant increase in the overall mean scores regarding knowledge of antibiotics resistance before and after the education intervention in the control group (p<0.001) and intervention group (p<0.001). Post-intervention, there was a significant reduction in the mean scores of misbeliefs about antibiotic use (p<0.001). We found an improvement in the perception scores toward AMR and antibiotic resistance post-educational intervention (P=0.008), and the perception difference remained significant between the two study groups (p=0.002). Conclusion These findings showed that interventional education effectively raises awareness, knowledge, and perceptions toward AMR. Therefore, public health, medical, and scientific professionals in Saudi Arabia are urged to emphasize education to fight AMR, in addition to other strategies. Cureus 2023-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10411380/ /pubmed/37565089 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41639 Text en Copyright © 2023, Almutairi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Medical Education
Almutairi, Khalid S
Okmi, Ezzuddin A
Alnofaiei, Sabah S
Alshamari, Waleed K
Almutairi, Sultan H
Alsuwailem, Sulaiman I
Alkhaldi, Eid H
The Effects of Health Education on the Awareness of Antimicrobial Resistance Among High School Students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia During 2023: A Quasi-experimental Study
title The Effects of Health Education on the Awareness of Antimicrobial Resistance Among High School Students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia During 2023: A Quasi-experimental Study
title_full The Effects of Health Education on the Awareness of Antimicrobial Resistance Among High School Students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia During 2023: A Quasi-experimental Study
title_fullStr The Effects of Health Education on the Awareness of Antimicrobial Resistance Among High School Students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia During 2023: A Quasi-experimental Study
title_full_unstemmed The Effects of Health Education on the Awareness of Antimicrobial Resistance Among High School Students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia During 2023: A Quasi-experimental Study
title_short The Effects of Health Education on the Awareness of Antimicrobial Resistance Among High School Students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia During 2023: A Quasi-experimental Study
title_sort effects of health education on the awareness of antimicrobial resistance among high school students in riyadh, saudi arabia during 2023: a quasi-experimental study
topic Medical Education
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10411380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37565089
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41639
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