TY - JOUR AU - Anwar, Attia AU - Faisal, Rizwan AU - Mahmood, Asad AU - Naz, Huma AU - Sibtain, Syed Ali AU - Shinwari, Laiyla PY - 2017/12/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Antibiotic Use in Infants: A Cross-Sectional Survey Assessing the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Health Professionals JF - Annals of King Edward Medical University JA - Annals KEMU VL - 23 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.21649/akemu.v23i3.2023 UR - https://www.annalskemu.org/journal/index.php/annals/article/view/2023 SP - AB - <p>Introduction: Antibiotic use has become very common in the Asian countries due to which the&nbsp;community is at risk for producing adverse effects and resistance. Various researches have proved the&nbsp;malprescription of antibiotic. Therefore there is a need to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices of&nbsp;health professionals working in the community regarding the use of antibiotics.<br>Objective: To evaluate and compare the knowledge, attitudes and practices of health professionals&nbsp;towards the use of antibiotic in infants.<br>Material &amp; Methods: In this cross-sectional study a total of 250 health professionals were approached,&nbsp;among which 210 responded and filled the questionnaire. Data after collection was divided and analyzed&nbsp;on the basis of three categories: (i) based on overall response of the health professionals (ii) based on area<br>of practice of the prescribers (in city &amp; remote) and (iii) based on qualification of the prescribers&nbsp;(specialists, postgraduate residents, general physician &amp; allied health staff).<br>Results: The results of the present study shown that knowledge, attitudes and practices of the health&nbsp;professionals of city area regarding the prescription of antibiotics in infants was better as compared to the&nbsp;prescribers of remote area with significant difference of 0.001. Likewise a significant difference of 0.001<br>was found between the knowledge, attitudes and practices of the specialists, postgraduate medical&nbsp;residents, general physician and allied health staff. Specialists were found to be the most knowledgeable&nbsp;prescribers while allied health staff were the least.<br>Conclusion: Health professionals practicing in city areas and the ones who were more qualified i.e&nbsp;Specialists were much better in knowledge, attitudes and practices of prescribing antibiotics in infants.</p> ER -