Assessment of Public Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding the Use of Antibiotics among the Pregnant Women in Tabuk City
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: Antibiotic resistance is a global health problem that needs a serious intervention from all governmental sectors. There have been plenty of research studies about increasing resistance of bacteria to common antibiotics. The resistance to antibiotics is causing new infections which may make them difficult to treat. Moreover, this may lead to cause death by common infections and injuries that were treated before easily. Furthermore, this will put a serious economic burden on hospital and spread fatal infections among community. Unfortunately, 78% of pharmacies in Saudi Arabia are selling antibiotics without prescriptions which strongly participating in antibiotics abuse in this country. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 200 general population, randomly selected by simple random sampling technique from all population in Tabuk. A web based self-administrated, structured arabic questionnaire was used to test knowledge and attitude of general population about antibiotics using. The collected Data were entered and analyzed using (SPSS) statistical program version 19. Results: In this study the sample with an age range of 19-30 years were used. The data of 500 questioners were analyzed using SPSS program. And its showed 39% of people in this study are taken antibiotics by doctors while 41% of people in this study are consumed antibiotics from pharmacists without prescriptions surprisingly. The small difference in the percentages between people who used antibiotic either by doctors or pharmacists prescription could indicate that pharmacy might be the responsible about antibiotic misuse. It sees that pharmacist in area of this study Tabuk sell the antibiotics based on the information that he gets from customers without asking about the doctor’s prescription. Therefore, strict legislation should be founded and applied on all pharmacies to avoid selling the antibiotics without prescriptions. Conclusion: From this study it seems that the knowledge about using antibiotics in the small area like Tabuk is very primitive. Moreover, irresponsible attitude by both pharmacists and community is pointed also in this study. Antibiotic resistance can cause severe illness and is vital public health problem. It can be avoided by reducing unnecessary prescribing and overprescribing of antibiotics. Increase the knowledge about the proper use of prescribed antibiotics, good hygiene and infection control can reduce the risk of antibiotic resistance.
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Dalia Tageldin Abdoun Mohamed, Reem Ali AbdElkarim
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- DOI 10.21276/ijmrp.2018.4.1.080
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