Knowledge and Attitude Towards Antibiotic Usage: A Questionnaire-Based Survey Among Pre-Professional Students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences on Jeddah Campus, Saudi Arabia

Introduction: Knowledge and attitudes towards proper antibiotic usage among students in medical and other health allied fields play a vital role in limiting the pandemic of antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to assess knowledge and attitudes toward antibiotic usage among pre-professional studen...

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Autores principales: Zaidi, Syed Faisal, Alotaibi, Rakan, Nagro, Abdulaziz, Alsalmi, Muath, Almansouri, Hidaya, Khan, Muhammad Anwar, Khan, Aslam, Memon, Ismail
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31935856
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8010005
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author Zaidi, Syed Faisal
Alotaibi, Rakan
Nagro, Abdulaziz
Alsalmi, Muath
Almansouri, Hidaya
Khan, Muhammad Anwar
Khan, Aslam
Memon, Ismail
author_facet Zaidi, Syed Faisal
Alotaibi, Rakan
Nagro, Abdulaziz
Alsalmi, Muath
Almansouri, Hidaya
Khan, Muhammad Anwar
Khan, Aslam
Memon, Ismail
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description Introduction: Knowledge and attitudes towards proper antibiotic usage among students in medical and other health allied fields play a vital role in limiting the pandemic of antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to assess knowledge and attitudes toward antibiotic usage among pre-professional students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences on Jeddah Campus, Saudi Arabia. Methods: A self-administered cross-sectional survey of 347 first year students was conducted at the College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences using a validated questionnaire. Results: Nearly 63% of the students had a moderate level of knowledge. Two third of the students (69.7%) correctly knew that antibiotics are indicated for the treatment of bacterial infections. However, about 36% of the students incorrectly thought that antibiotics are also used to treat viral infections, while 28.5% were not sure. Only 38.8% of the students were aware of antibiotic resistance phenomena in relation to the overuse of antibiotics. Furthermore, only 27.3% correctly knew that penicillin is an antibiotic, and 74.4% were not sure if Paracetamol is an antibiotic. With regard to attitudes, 25.7% believed that taking antibiotics when having cold symptoms could help them to recover faster, while 39.6% expected antibiotics to be prescribed for common cold symptoms. Conclusion: The students have misconception regarding antibiotic use indications. Therefore, awareness campaigns are needed to promote student’s use of antibiotics in young generations particularly among the pre-professional health sciences students.
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spelling pubmed-71516572020-04-20 Knowledge and Attitude Towards Antibiotic Usage: A Questionnaire-Based Survey Among Pre-Professional Students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences on Jeddah Campus, Saudi Arabia Zaidi, Syed Faisal Alotaibi, Rakan Nagro, Abdulaziz Alsalmi, Muath Almansouri, Hidaya Khan, Muhammad Anwar Khan, Aslam Memon, Ismail Pharmacy (Basel) Article Introduction: Knowledge and attitudes towards proper antibiotic usage among students in medical and other health allied fields play a vital role in limiting the pandemic of antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to assess knowledge and attitudes toward antibiotic usage among pre-professional students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences on Jeddah Campus, Saudi Arabia. Methods: A self-administered cross-sectional survey of 347 first year students was conducted at the College of Science and Health Professions, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences using a validated questionnaire. Results: Nearly 63% of the students had a moderate level of knowledge. Two third of the students (69.7%) correctly knew that antibiotics are indicated for the treatment of bacterial infections. However, about 36% of the students incorrectly thought that antibiotics are also used to treat viral infections, while 28.5% were not sure. Only 38.8% of the students were aware of antibiotic resistance phenomena in relation to the overuse of antibiotics. Furthermore, only 27.3% correctly knew that penicillin is an antibiotic, and 74.4% were not sure if Paracetamol is an antibiotic. With regard to attitudes, 25.7% believed that taking antibiotics when having cold symptoms could help them to recover faster, while 39.6% expected antibiotics to be prescribed for common cold symptoms. Conclusion: The students have misconception regarding antibiotic use indications. Therefore, awareness campaigns are needed to promote student’s use of antibiotics in young generations particularly among the pre-professional health sciences students. MDPI 2020-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7151657/ /pubmed/31935856 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8010005 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Zaidi, Syed Faisal
Alotaibi, Rakan
Nagro, Abdulaziz
Alsalmi, Muath
Almansouri, Hidaya
Khan, Muhammad Anwar
Khan, Aslam
Memon, Ismail
Knowledge and Attitude Towards Antibiotic Usage: A Questionnaire-Based Survey Among Pre-Professional Students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences on Jeddah Campus, Saudi Arabia
title Knowledge and Attitude Towards Antibiotic Usage: A Questionnaire-Based Survey Among Pre-Professional Students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences on Jeddah Campus, Saudi Arabia
title_full Knowledge and Attitude Towards Antibiotic Usage: A Questionnaire-Based Survey Among Pre-Professional Students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences on Jeddah Campus, Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr Knowledge and Attitude Towards Antibiotic Usage: A Questionnaire-Based Survey Among Pre-Professional Students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences on Jeddah Campus, Saudi Arabia
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge and Attitude Towards Antibiotic Usage: A Questionnaire-Based Survey Among Pre-Professional Students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences on Jeddah Campus, Saudi Arabia
title_short Knowledge and Attitude Towards Antibiotic Usage: A Questionnaire-Based Survey Among Pre-Professional Students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences on Jeddah Campus, Saudi Arabia
title_sort knowledge and attitude towards antibiotic usage: a questionnaire-based survey among pre-professional students at king saud bin abdulaziz university for health sciences on jeddah campus, saudi arabia
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31935856
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8010005
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