4.2 Use of antibiotics among the respondents
In terms of the past personal antibiotics use, most of the respondents took antibiotics in the last 6 months to more than a year ago. Furthermore, almost all the respondents (95.28%) procured antibiotics with medical prescriptions from a medical store or pharmacy (94.34%) instead of using leftover antibiotics (1.89%). They also received proper advice given by healthcare professionals (73.58%). These findings suggested that our students are more adhering to the health policies and aware of the importance of getting antibiotic with a prescription. As compared to a study done by Scaioli et al., 77.6% of their respondents claimed to get antibiotics without medical prescription, and 17.7% of them took the leftovers antibiotics without doctor’s advice.18 Additionally, recent studies revealed that the leftover antibiotics will prone the medical students to be predisposed to self-medication of antibiotics (SMA).19-21 Subsequently, these might attribute to worsen infections, allergic reactions and even the development of AR.