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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Among Chinese Pharmacy Customers: A Multicenter Survey Study
Background: Resistance to antibiotics is one of the major global health challenges. An adequate understanding of the public regarding rational antibiotic use is a prerequisite to limit progression in antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP)...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7235738/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32316147 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9040184 |
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author | Li, Pengchao Hayat, Khezar Shi, Li Lambojon, Krizzia Saeed, Amna Majid Aziz, Muhammad Liu, Tao Ji, Shiyu Gong, Yilin Feng, Zhitong Jiang, Minghuan Ji, Wenjing Yang, Caijun Chang, Jie Fang, Yu |
author_facet | Li, Pengchao Hayat, Khezar Shi, Li Lambojon, Krizzia Saeed, Amna Majid Aziz, Muhammad Liu, Tao Ji, Shiyu Gong, Yilin Feng, Zhitong Jiang, Minghuan Ji, Wenjing Yang, Caijun Chang, Jie Fang, Yu |
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description | Background: Resistance to antibiotics is one of the major global health challenges. An adequate understanding of the public regarding rational antibiotic use is a prerequisite to limit progression in antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance among customers visiting community pharmacies. Methods: This study was undertaken in three capital cities in China during March 2019 and July 2019 by using a questionnaire of 28 items. The questionnaire had four parts, including sociodemographic characteristics, KAP about antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance. A systematic random sampling approach was used to recruit the participants. Kruskal–Wallis and Mann–Whitney tests were carried out for data analysis. Results: The response rate was 66.7% (1800/2700). Out of the total, only 9.7% of the customers had good knowledge about antibiotics. Nearly half of the participants were unable to differentiate between antibiotics, and anti-inflammatory drugs (n = 820, 45.6%, Median = 2, IQR = 1). Most of the customers were of the view that the use of over the counter antibiotics in pregnant women is unsafe (n = 1307, 72.6%, Median = 2, IQR = 0). Almost half of the participants disagreed that costly antibiotics are more effective and have fewer side effects (n = 897, 49.9%, Median = 3, IQR = 1). Only 22.3% of participants said that they always finish the course of antibiotic treatment (n = 401, 22.3%, Median = 3, IQR = 1). Conclusion: The knowledge of Chinese pharmacy consumers was inadequate, and a lack of good attitudes and practices in certain aspects of antibiotic use was observed. Educational interventions are needed to increase public knowledge of antibiotics. |
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spelling | pubmed-72357382020-05-22 Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Among Chinese Pharmacy Customers: A Multicenter Survey Study Li, Pengchao Hayat, Khezar Shi, Li Lambojon, Krizzia Saeed, Amna Majid Aziz, Muhammad Liu, Tao Ji, Shiyu Gong, Yilin Feng, Zhitong Jiang, Minghuan Ji, Wenjing Yang, Caijun Chang, Jie Fang, Yu Antibiotics (Basel) Article Background: Resistance to antibiotics is one of the major global health challenges. An adequate understanding of the public regarding rational antibiotic use is a prerequisite to limit progression in antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance among customers visiting community pharmacies. Methods: This study was undertaken in three capital cities in China during March 2019 and July 2019 by using a questionnaire of 28 items. The questionnaire had four parts, including sociodemographic characteristics, KAP about antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance. A systematic random sampling approach was used to recruit the participants. Kruskal–Wallis and Mann–Whitney tests were carried out for data analysis. Results: The response rate was 66.7% (1800/2700). Out of the total, only 9.7% of the customers had good knowledge about antibiotics. Nearly half of the participants were unable to differentiate between antibiotics, and anti-inflammatory drugs (n = 820, 45.6%, Median = 2, IQR = 1). Most of the customers were of the view that the use of over the counter antibiotics in pregnant women is unsafe (n = 1307, 72.6%, Median = 2, IQR = 0). Almost half of the participants disagreed that costly antibiotics are more effective and have fewer side effects (n = 897, 49.9%, Median = 3, IQR = 1). Only 22.3% of participants said that they always finish the course of antibiotic treatment (n = 401, 22.3%, Median = 3, IQR = 1). Conclusion: The knowledge of Chinese pharmacy consumers was inadequate, and a lack of good attitudes and practices in certain aspects of antibiotic use was observed. Educational interventions are needed to increase public knowledge of antibiotics. MDPI 2020-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7235738/ /pubmed/32316147 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9040184 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Li, Pengchao Hayat, Khezar Shi, Li Lambojon, Krizzia Saeed, Amna Majid Aziz, Muhammad Liu, Tao Ji, Shiyu Gong, Yilin Feng, Zhitong Jiang, Minghuan Ji, Wenjing Yang, Caijun Chang, Jie Fang, Yu Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Among Chinese Pharmacy Customers: A Multicenter Survey Study |
title | Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Among Chinese Pharmacy Customers: A Multicenter Survey Study |
title_full | Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Among Chinese Pharmacy Customers: A Multicenter Survey Study |
title_fullStr | Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Among Chinese Pharmacy Customers: A Multicenter Survey Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Among Chinese Pharmacy Customers: A Multicenter Survey Study |
title_short | Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Among Chinese Pharmacy Customers: A Multicenter Survey Study |
title_sort | knowledge, attitude, and practices of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance among chinese pharmacy customers: a multicenter survey study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7235738/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32316147 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9040184 |
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