Knowledge, attitudes and practices of parents regarding antibiotic use in children (original) (raw)
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Awareness Level of Parents about Antibiotics Those Are given to Children in Riyadh Region 2017
The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2017
Background: Defect of use of antibiotics is bothering pediatricians. This defect is participating in the prevalence of one of global health problem called antibiotic Resistance. Many articles are supporting the idea that use of antibiotics is positively related to antibiotic resistance and this problem is increasing and growing up. By the way, incorrect use of antibiotics has many factors that contribute on, like patient attitude and deficiency of education from the physician who prescribed the antibiotic. Also, patient's knowledge and practice with the antibiotic like self-prescription. What is patient expecting from antibiotic and previous experience with antibiotics? Parents are responsible to give medications to children. So, we need to increase parents' knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) toward antibiotics to reach new generation without antibiotic resistance. Regarding Saudi Arabia, antibiotic resistance already exists and the rate of resistance is increased in the last decade. Aim of the work: To assess how parents are aware of antibiotics those given to their children by evaluating knowledge, attitude, and practice of parents in Riyadh region, central Saudi Arabia. Methods: This is questionnaire based cross-sectional study. Authors were circulating on Riyadh Region to find volunteers to fill questionnaires among parents of children in public places by selecting parents of children up to 12 years old by choosing random samples from each place. The questionnaire has two parts: the first part, as usual, is containing demographic data. While the second part: is the part that is evaluating KAP of parents towards antibiotics. Then we compared the final results by Chi-Square test and p-values less than 0.05 was considered as significant value. Results: around 1058 parents volunteered to participate in this study (response rate was 88.16%) by mean age of 38. Around 89.6% used antibiotics for their children before. There are 9.5% of parents were believe that their children need antibiotics each time they get sick. More than 35% of our participants don't complete period of antibiotic use to their child as what is mentioned on prescription. About 82.3% believe that antibiotics can harm children. There are 41.7% of parents bought antibiotics to their children from the previous prescription. Around 61.1% don't know the term antibiotic resistance. There are 28.4% of participants could change their doctors if they don't prescribe antibiotics easily, while only 642(60.7%) could change their doctors if they prescribe antibiotics excessively. About 68.1% of participants believe that doctors prescribe antibiotics excessively. Nearly 49% have good KAP, 41% of participants have intermediate KAP and remaining 10% have poor KAP. Females are better than male in KAP, people with high degree education are better than other and parents who used antibiotics before are better than those who didn't (p-value < 0.05). Conclusion: Level of knowledge, attitude, and practice of people in Riyadh region is ranging between good to moderate, and tends to be good. We can expect antibiotics resistance to happen among new generation in Riyadh region. There is an unacceptable idea that is highly prevalent among parents that doctors excessively prescribe antibiotics. Moreover, mothers have better awareness than fathers. People with high degree level of education have better awareness than others.
Knowledge and awareness of proper use of antibiotics for children in Shobak medical center in Jordan
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Objectives: to assess the knowledge of both parents and community pharmacists regarding antibiotics use and resistance in pediatrics in Lebanon. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between June and August 2017 in community pharmacies. A pre-established questionnaire targeting knowledge of parents and pharmacists regarding antibiotics use/misuse was carried out. An index of knowledge was computed to assess factors associated with good knowledge on antibiotics use/misuse. Results: The study showed that 28.7% of pharmacists did not know which factors may contribute to antimicrobial resistance. Concerning the misuse of antibiotics, pharmacists blamed at first parents (90.1%), at second level physicians (72.8%), and third themselves (59.4%). Furthermore, pharmacists believed that the socioeconomic problems of the country (86.1%), the level of resistance to the molecule of choice (80.8%), the lack of consultation time (71.2%) and the lack of national guidelines/recommendations (66.3%) might be additional factors contributing to antimicrobial resistance. In case of acute otitis media, the majority of pharmacists chose the correct treatment, dose and duration according to international guidelines; this was in contrast to the results obtained in case of pharyngitis. Female pharmacists had a significantly higher knowledge score compared to their male counterparts (ORa=2.51). Half of parents (42.6%) declared that antibiotics act against both viruses and bacteria, 55.9% still believe that the presence of fever requires the administration of antibiotics, 50% didn't know the consequences of antibiotics misuse, 58.4% said that it is okay to give their child antibiotics without a physician's advice or based on a pharmacist's recommendation, and 66.7% trusted the pharmacist in the antibiotic prescription. Parents with a university level of education or a master's degree had significantly better knowledge compared to illiterate ones (ORa=9.04 and ORa=16.46, respectively). Conclusions: Based on the results obtained, it would be necessary to implement educational campaigns in order to increase awareness on antibiotics misuse and resistance in pediatrics.
The Journal of Tepecik Education and Research Hospital
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Bangladesh Journal of Child Health, 2017
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Parent related factors influencing the improper use of antibiotics in children
International journal of pharmaceutical research and life sciences, 2020
Objective to determine the parent related factors which are in luencing the improper use of antibiotics in children. Antibiotics are the most commonly used drugs for treating infections. Parents' knowledge and practices to use medicines have important effects on the management of childhood illness. Improper use of the antibiotics could be because of some strongly in luenced parent related factors. A prospective study was conducted in 200 subjects from the randomly chosen communities in Bangalore. Door to door visit was done by the investigators. Demographic data were collected using CRF [Case Report Form] and Questionnaires were used to assess parental knowledge and practice of antibiotic use in children. Questionnaires were validated and either of the parents was asked to answer the questionnaire. Answers collected using the questionnaire was correlated with some of the parent related demographic factors. Our study revealed that majority of the responders were mother and most of them are of middle age and have myth about the antibiotic use in children. Education level of the parents has a direct impact on knowledge about antibiotic use. Increase in number of children in a family have a correlation in improper practice of antibiotic use. Income status is related with the practise of the antibiotic use. Occupation also plays an important role in the practice of antibiotic use in children. Residing area also in luences in antibiotic use by parents. Parents' non-adherence towards antibiotics for their children is also governed by various adverse drug reactions like allergic conditions, nausea, vomiting, fever etc.
The Parental Use of Antibiotics in Children in Saudi Arabia
Epidemiology: Open Access, 2015
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Pediatric Oncall, 2020
To assess parents' knowledge and attitudes towards the use of antibiotics within the paediatric age range. Methods and Materials: This observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study, with a voluntary and anonymous questionnaire was implemented over three months to a sample of parents of children and teenagers enrolled on two Family Health Units, D. Jordão (rural area) and Sétima Colina (urban area). results: A total of 294 valid questionnaires were obtained. Only 149 (51%) answered that antibiotics treat bacterial infections, 101 (34%) believed that they help in the recovery of a flu and 36 (12%) considered that they should always be used in case of fever. Two hundred twenty-seven (77%), identified misuse of antimicrobials as a cause of bacterial resistance, even so, 31% became concerned if the doctor does not prescribe these drugs. Only 87 (30%) showed high level of knowledge and a statistically significant correlation existed between higher age of parents [Odd's ratio (OR)=2.37], education (OR=3.42), confidence in doctors (OR=2.06) and level of knowledge of respondents. There was no statistically significant difference between the level of knowledge of users in the rural environment compared to those in the urban environment (p=0.546). conclusion: Most parents are unaware of antibiotics' function, as well as the difference between viral and bacterial infections. Although they identify that misuse of these drugs may lead to bacterial resistance, parents become reluctant when antibiotics are not prescribed. introduction Antibiotics, whose function allows the prevention and cure of infections of bacterial origin, are considered one of the most relevant inventions of the 20 th century. 1-3 Prior to their discovery, bacterial infections contributed significantly tzo morbidity and mortality on a global scale. 1,4 Thus, antibiotics play an essential role in medical practice, 2,5 so their prescription has been increasing. 4,6 In 2014, these drugs contributed to 70.5% of the total anti-infectious drugs prescribed at ambulatory care and hospitals in Mainland Portugal. 7 However, its widespread use correlates with the development of strains of resistant bacteria. 1,8,9 Although this is a natural process resulting from the selective pressure exerted by the use of antibiotics, the selection of resistant strains is enhanced by inappropriate and frequent use of this pharmacological class. 8,10,15
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