3.5 Attitudes, perception, and practice towards antibiotics use
and its resistance
Other than accessing the knowledge, the outcomes concerning the
attitude, perception, and practice of respondents on antibiotic usage
were analyzed using 5 points Likert’s scale response from agree strongly
to disagree. After dichotomizing the 5-point Likert scale, the responses
such as “agree strongly” and “agree slightly” were computed to get
Net Positive Responses (NPR) while the responses such as “neither agree
nor disagree”, “disagree slightly” and “disagree strongly” were
combined to get Net Other Response (NOR). The positive response rate was
calculated by dividing the NPR by total response rate and multiply by
100. In this study, chi-square test was performed to evaluate whether
these proportion differences between NPR and NOR. A p value ≤0.05 was
considered as statistically significance. The details are summarized in
table 6.
Indeed, it showed moderate to good overall attitudes and perception on
the use of antibiotics and its resistance among the respondents. Apart
from “there is not much I can do to stop antibiotic resistance” and
“I am not at risk of getting antibiotic resistance bacteria as long as
I take the antibiotics correctly”, other items showed more positive
responses. In addition, almost all the respondents (n = 112,
99.12%) agreed with the statement “parents should make sure their
children’s vaccination are up-to-date” and “doctors should only
prescribe antibiotics when they are needed”. However, a minority of
them are not aware of their roles and responsibilities (n = 65,
57%) towards antibiotics usage and think that there is not much they
can do to stop the emergence of AR (n = 23, 20.35%).