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Knowledge, attitude, and practice associated with antimicrobial resistance among medical students between 2017 and 2022: A survey in East China

This study described the knowledge, attitude, practice regarding antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among medical students between 2017 and 2022 in East China. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted with a total of 1,066 respondents. We highlighted that the undergraduates had a significant increase...

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Autores principales: Min, Shengyi, Zhou, Yuxuan, Sun, Yuxuan, Ye, Jiaquan, Dong, Yongfei, Wang, Xichao, Zhou, Zhemin, Zhou, Hanyu, Li, Heng
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9637849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36353280
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1010582
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author Min, Shengyi
Zhou, Yuxuan
Sun, Yuxuan
Ye, Jiaquan
Dong, Yongfei
Wang, Xichao
Zhou, Zhemin
Zhou, Hanyu
Li, Heng
author_facet Min, Shengyi
Zhou, Yuxuan
Sun, Yuxuan
Ye, Jiaquan
Dong, Yongfei
Wang, Xichao
Zhou, Zhemin
Zhou, Hanyu
Li, Heng
author_sort Min, Shengyi
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description This study described the knowledge, attitude, practice regarding antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among medical students between 2017 and 2022 in East China. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted with a total of 1,066 respondents. We highlighted that the undergraduates had a significant increase in the knowledge of antimicrobial resistance during the 5 years from 2017 to 2022 (p < 0.001). The majority of the assertions about the AMR were correctly identified by respondents. However, gaps were still observed in the issues of antimicrobial targets and bacterial transmission. In addition, overconfident attitudes and inappropriate behaviors of antimicrobial overuse and misuse were observed in the respondents. A number of 30.2% to 45.2% of the respondents asserted that there is no risk of AMR as long as the antimicrobials are taken correctly, and a proportion of the students (25.3% in 2022; 69.3% in 2017, p < 0.001) declared to buy antimicrobials from friends or family members to treat the same illness. Finally, spearman correlation coefficient was enrolled to compare the correlation of the student's KAP. Results showed that the students' knowledge of antimicrobials had a correlation with attitude (p = 0.0126) and practice (p < 0.001), suggesting that public education on knowledge could influence the behaviors among the medical students. Taken all together, our findings show a need to strengthen the medical students' cogitation on antimicrobial attitude and practice of appropriate usage as an essential strategy to reduce intractable public health problems. Additional curriculum reforms will be needed to add more specific AMR-related lectures to raise awareness amongst medical students in China.
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spelling pubmed-96378492022-11-08 Knowledge, attitude, and practice associated with antimicrobial resistance among medical students between 2017 and 2022: A survey in East China Min, Shengyi Zhou, Yuxuan Sun, Yuxuan Ye, Jiaquan Dong, Yongfei Wang, Xichao Zhou, Zhemin Zhou, Hanyu Li, Heng Front Public Health Public Health This study described the knowledge, attitude, practice regarding antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among medical students between 2017 and 2022 in East China. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted with a total of 1,066 respondents. We highlighted that the undergraduates had a significant increase in the knowledge of antimicrobial resistance during the 5 years from 2017 to 2022 (p < 0.001). The majority of the assertions about the AMR were correctly identified by respondents. However, gaps were still observed in the issues of antimicrobial targets and bacterial transmission. In addition, overconfident attitudes and inappropriate behaviors of antimicrobial overuse and misuse were observed in the respondents. A number of 30.2% to 45.2% of the respondents asserted that there is no risk of AMR as long as the antimicrobials are taken correctly, and a proportion of the students (25.3% in 2022; 69.3% in 2017, p < 0.001) declared to buy antimicrobials from friends or family members to treat the same illness. Finally, spearman correlation coefficient was enrolled to compare the correlation of the student's KAP. Results showed that the students' knowledge of antimicrobials had a correlation with attitude (p = 0.0126) and practice (p < 0.001), suggesting that public education on knowledge could influence the behaviors among the medical students. Taken all together, our findings show a need to strengthen the medical students' cogitation on antimicrobial attitude and practice of appropriate usage as an essential strategy to reduce intractable public health problems. Additional curriculum reforms will be needed to add more specific AMR-related lectures to raise awareness amongst medical students in China. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9637849/ /pubmed/36353280 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1010582 Text en Copyright © 2022 Min, Zhou, Sun, Ye, Dong, Wang, Zhou, Zhou and Li. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Public Health
Min, Shengyi
Zhou, Yuxuan
Sun, Yuxuan
Ye, Jiaquan
Dong, Yongfei
Wang, Xichao
Zhou, Zhemin
Zhou, Hanyu
Li, Heng
Knowledge, attitude, and practice associated with antimicrobial resistance among medical students between 2017 and 2022: A survey in East China
title Knowledge, attitude, and practice associated with antimicrobial resistance among medical students between 2017 and 2022: A survey in East China
title_full Knowledge, attitude, and practice associated with antimicrobial resistance among medical students between 2017 and 2022: A survey in East China
title_fullStr Knowledge, attitude, and practice associated with antimicrobial resistance among medical students between 2017 and 2022: A survey in East China
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, attitude, and practice associated with antimicrobial resistance among medical students between 2017 and 2022: A survey in East China
title_short Knowledge, attitude, and practice associated with antimicrobial resistance among medical students between 2017 and 2022: A survey in East China
title_sort knowledge, attitude, and practice associated with antimicrobial resistance among medical students between 2017 and 2022: a survey in east china
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9637849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36353280
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1010582
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