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Abstract

BACKGROUND


Antibiotics are among the most commonly prescribed medications which serve a very useful therapeutic purpose in eradicating pathogens; however they are very often misused. Health science students who are future physicians are expected to have appropriate knowledge and attitude towards the growing menace of antibiotic resistance (ABR) for which the present study was done.


METHODS


A cross-sectional, questionnaire based survey was conducted among second professional medical students in June 2015 about knowledge, attitude and perception using a ‘Likert scale’ and analyzed by using simple descriptive statistics involving frequencies, percentages and proportions.


RESULTS


Of the 69 students, 66 filled and returned the questionnaire. All the respondents agreed that indiscriminate and injudicious use of antibiotics leads to emergence of resistance and they are less likely to work in future if taken too often. However responses in other questions were quite varied and divided.


CONCLUSIONS


Our study revealed the most of the student were aware of the issues related to antimicrobial usage like resistance and its consequences and further educational interventions are necessary to improve their understanding as well as their attitude towards antibiotic use.

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Knowledge attitude antibiotic resistance Likert scale perception

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Samina Farhat, Mohammad Younis Bhat, & Zahid Mohd. Rather. (2021). A questionnaire based survey on antibiotic usage and resistance among second professional medical students in a tertiary care centre. International Journal of Research in Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapeutics, 4(3), 314-319. https://doi.org/10.61096/ijrpp.v4.iss3.2015.314-319
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