Survey of antibiotic knowledge amongst final year medical students

Wright, E. Pamela; Jain, Pooja

doi:10.1093/jac/dkh096

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“…In terms of understanding therapeutic categories, the majority of the respondents correctly reported that cefotaxime belongs to third-generation cephalosporins. This is not in accordance with a study done in the UK where more than half of the respondents were not able to comprehend that metronidazole and Flagyl were same [12]. The current results are quite promising for keeping leftover antibiotics -a very large majority answered correctly that it is not a good practice to do so.…”

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“…Lower levels of understanding were found for treatment of influenza by antibiotics, resistance to penicillin for Streptococcus pyogenes bacterium, and for Enterococcus being a vancomycin-resistant bacterium. These current research findings are not in accordance with a study done in the United Kingdom in which medical students showed good knowledge about antibiotic resistance amongst freely isolated bacteria [12]. The issue of treatment of influenza by antibiotics is supported by another Malaysian study where respondents reported that antibiotics were effective for viral infections [8].…”

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“…The study instrument was a questionnaire which was formed on the basis of extensive literature search [2,3,8,[10][11][12]. The questionnaire was subjected to face validity and content validity by being sent to 10 pharmacy and medical faculty for review.…”

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Understanding of antibiotic use and resistance among final-year pharmacy and medical students: a pilot study

Jamshed

Elkalmi

Rajiah

et al. 2014

J Infect Dev Ctries

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Introduction: This study is aimed to investigate the understanding of antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance and its correlate factors among final-year medical and pharmacy students at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study. The study instrument was developed by extensive literature search and was subjected to face validity and content validity to medical and pharmacy academics. A pilot study was conducted to ascertain the reliability coefficient. Data was entered to SPSS version 17 and descriptive and inferential statistics were applied. Results: A total of 123 questionnaires were included in the study. Out of 123 respondents, 58.5% (n = 72) were final-year medical students, while 41.5% (n = 51) were final-year pharmacy students. The majority of the respondents showed adequate knowledge regarding the course contents related to antibiotics (n = 116; 94.3%). Almost all the respondents correctly reported the difference between bactericidal and bacteriostatic antibiotics. Only 15.4% (n = 19) and 27.6% (n = 34) of students were able to recognize Streptococcus pyogenes as nonpencillin resistant bacterium and Enterococcus as vancomycin-resistant bacterium, respectively. Conclusions: The students showed good understanding regarding antibiotic resistance. In comparison to medical students, pharmacy students showed better understanding and more adequate knowledge, as the mean value for each domain was slightly higher for pharmacy students. Extensively improving the curriculum and educating healthcare professionals, especially physicians and pharmacists, right from the time of their educational training can inculcate a moral responsibility toward the judicious use of antibiotics, which can serve to eradicate antibiotic resistance.

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Understanding of antibiotic use and resistance among final-year pharmacy and medical students: a pilot study

Jamshed

Elkalmi

Rajiah

et al. 2014

J Infect Dev Ctries

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“…Hence, teaching about antimicrobial chemotherapy should form a vital part of both the undergraduate and postgraduate medical curricula, considering the frequency with which these agents are prescribed and our continuing and increasing concern regarding antibiotic resistance [5].…”

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Antibiotic Resistance and Usage—A Survey on the Knowledge, Attitude, Perceptions and Practices among the Medical Students of a Southern Indian Teaching Hospital

Banu²,

Reshma³

2013

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“…Various studies have described the inability of the prescribing physicians in creating awareness and providing adequate education to the patients regarding antibiotic usage. 1,7 Thus, it is not a single grand challenge; it is rather a complex problem requiring concerted efforts of microbiologists, ecologists, health care specialists, educationalists, policy makers, legislative bodies, agricultural and pharmaceutical industry workers, and the public to deal with. In fact, this should be of everyone's concern, because, in the end, there is always a probability for any of us at some stage to get infected with a pathogen that is resistant to antibiotic treatment.…”

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Drug-coated balloons versus 1ry stenting for TASC C and D femoropopliteal lesions

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Background: To compare the effectiveness and outcome of Drug-Coated Balloon (DCB) versus primary nitinol stenting for the treatment of long femoropopliteal lesions (TASC II C and D).Methods: This was retrospective study along 3 years included all the cases of femeropopliteal disease TASC C and D that was treated with DEB or primary stenting. The safety endpoint was 30-day free from major limb amputation and mortality. The primary end point was primary patency and freedom from clinically driven target lesion revascularization at 6 and 12 months, patient genders, demographics, co-morbidities, smoking history, indications for intervention were recorded.Results: PTA and post-dilation with paclitaxel-eluting balloons was done in 32 patients (group I) and 1ry stenting was done in 30 patients (group II) with either stenosis or occlusion. The mean lesion length was 18.43±2cm in group 1 and 18.8±2.32cm in group. The technical success rate was 100% in group II and 93.7% in group I. 6 months and 12-month patency rate for group I and II were 93.3% vs. 93.3% and 83.3% vs. 86.6%, respectively. There were no 30 days related major amputations or mortalities in either group.Conclusions: DCB for long femoropopliteal lesions showed a comparable result to primary stenting and provide durable results and lower incidence of target revascularization in patients with TASC C and D lesions.

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Survey of antibiotic knowledge amongst final year medical students

Cited by 27 publications

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Understanding of antibiotic use and resistance among final-year pharmacy and medical students: a pilot study

Understanding of antibiotic use and resistance among final-year pharmacy and medical students: a pilot study

Antibiotic Resistance and Usage—A Survey on the Knowledge, Attitude, Perceptions and Practices among the Medical Students of a Southern Indian Teaching Hospital

Drug-coated balloons versus 1ry stenting for TASC C and D femoropopliteal lesions

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