TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Limaye, Dnyanesh
A1  - Naware, Sanika
A1  - Bare, Priyanka
A1  - Dalvi, Shreya
A1  - Dhurve, Ketaki
A1  - Sydymanov, Arlan
A1  - Limaye, Vaidehi
A1  - Shankar Pitani, Ravi
A1  - Kanso, Zeinab
A1  - Fortwengel, Gerhard
T1  - Knowledge, attitude and practices of antibiotic usage among students from Mumbai University
JF  - International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
N2  - Background: Discovery of antibiotics have helped to manage the devastating diseases. Presently, the antibiotic era is threatened by the emergence of high level of antibiotic resistance of important pathogens. Misuse of antibiotics poses a serious risk to infectious disease control. It is necessary to improve public awareness to bring a change in the behavior of consumers. Therefore, present study was undertaken to assess the existing knowledge, attitude and practices related to antibiotic usage among university students.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among students from Mumbai University, India during May-June 2017. 300 students were approached to participate in the study of which 250 agreed to participate (males: 117; females: 133). Pretested questionnaire was distributed and collected data was analyzed using IBM SPSS version 23.
Results: Substantial number (33% and 40%) participants were unaware about the differences in antibiotic-anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotic-antipyretics respectively. 28% of the participants thought it is right to stop antibiotics only based on symptoms improvement. Sixty eight percent and seventy nine percent participants believed that antibiotics should always be prescribed to treat flu like symptoms and pneumonia respectively.
Conclusions: Participants demonstrated poor knowledge about antibiotics. Similarly, their attitude and practice toward antibiotic use was associated with misconceptions. An educational intervention can be introduced to make them aware about rational antibiotic practices.
KW  - Antibiotic
KW  - Antibiotikum
KW  - Arzneimittelresistenz
KW  - Student
KW  - Mumbai
KW  - Drogenmissbrauch
KW  - Antibiotic resistance
KW  - Rational drug use
KW  - University students
Y1  - 2018
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-16736
SN  - 2320-6012
SS  - 2320-6012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-1673
DO  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-1673
VL  - 6
IS  - 6
SP  - 1908
EP  - 1912
ER  -