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Assessing the Impact of a School Intervention to Promote Students’ Knowledge and Practices on Correct Antibiotic Use
The clinical efficacy of antibiotics depends on their correct use. Widespread ignorance and inappropriate attitudes to antibiotic use have been identified among consumers. In order to improve the knowledge of middle-school students on antibiotics and their correct use, 82 ninth-grade students were e...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734468/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23860183 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph10072920 |
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author | Azevedo, Maria-Manuel Pinheiro, Céline Yaphe, John Baltazar, Fátima |
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description | The clinical efficacy of antibiotics depends on their correct use. Widespread ignorance and inappropriate attitudes to antibiotic use have been identified among consumers. In order to improve the knowledge of middle-school students on antibiotics and their correct use, 82 ninth-grade students were enrolled in a teaching activity. The teaching activity consisted of a slide show presentation followed by discussion in a regular class. To evaluate the impact of the teaching activity the students were asked to answer a questionnaire before and after the activity. This study aimed: (1) to evaluate knowledge on the use of antibiotics in students of two schools in the north of Portugal and (2) to evaluate the efficacy of the school intervention in improving students’ knowledge on correct antibiotic use. We found lack of knowledge among students regarding antibiotic spectra and indications and incorrect attitudes in the pre-test. Significant increases in knowledge were observed after implementation of the teaching activity. Knowledge of the correct use of antibiotics for bacterial diseases rather than viral diseases rose from 43% to 76% in the post-test (p < 0.01). Knowledge of the risk of bacterial resistance to antibiotics from their incorrect use rose from 48% to 74% in the post-test (p < 0.05). We believe that it is important to reinforce the teaching activities on microbiology and antibiotic use at the middle school level. |
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spelling | pubmed-37344682013-08-06 Assessing the Impact of a School Intervention to Promote Students’ Knowledge and Practices on Correct Antibiotic Use Azevedo, Maria-Manuel Pinheiro, Céline Yaphe, John Baltazar, Fátima Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The clinical efficacy of antibiotics depends on their correct use. Widespread ignorance and inappropriate attitudes to antibiotic use have been identified among consumers. In order to improve the knowledge of middle-school students on antibiotics and their correct use, 82 ninth-grade students were enrolled in a teaching activity. The teaching activity consisted of a slide show presentation followed by discussion in a regular class. To evaluate the impact of the teaching activity the students were asked to answer a questionnaire before and after the activity. This study aimed: (1) to evaluate knowledge on the use of antibiotics in students of two schools in the north of Portugal and (2) to evaluate the efficacy of the school intervention in improving students’ knowledge on correct antibiotic use. We found lack of knowledge among students regarding antibiotic spectra and indications and incorrect attitudes in the pre-test. Significant increases in knowledge were observed after implementation of the teaching activity. Knowledge of the correct use of antibiotics for bacterial diseases rather than viral diseases rose from 43% to 76% in the post-test (p < 0.01). Knowledge of the risk of bacterial resistance to antibiotics from their incorrect use rose from 48% to 74% in the post-test (p < 0.05). We believe that it is important to reinforce the teaching activities on microbiology and antibiotic use at the middle school level. MDPI 2013-07-15 2013-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3734468/ /pubmed/23860183 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph10072920 Text en © 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Azevedo, Maria-Manuel Pinheiro, Céline Yaphe, John Baltazar, Fátima Assessing the Impact of a School Intervention to Promote Students’ Knowledge and Practices on Correct Antibiotic Use |
title | Assessing the Impact of a School Intervention to Promote Students’ Knowledge and Practices on Correct Antibiotic Use |
title_full | Assessing the Impact of a School Intervention to Promote Students’ Knowledge and Practices on Correct Antibiotic Use |
title_fullStr | Assessing the Impact of a School Intervention to Promote Students’ Knowledge and Practices on Correct Antibiotic Use |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the Impact of a School Intervention to Promote Students’ Knowledge and Practices on Correct Antibiotic Use |
title_short | Assessing the Impact of a School Intervention to Promote Students’ Knowledge and Practices on Correct Antibiotic Use |
title_sort | assessing the impact of a school intervention to promote students’ knowledge and practices on correct antibiotic use |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734468/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23860183 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph10072920 |
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