3.3 Knowledge of antibiotics use among the respondents
Generally, their perceived knowledge was good as all the students know
that antibiotics can only be stopped when all the antibiotics had taken
as directed. Additionally, 96.46% of them know that the antibiotics
should not be given to the family members or friends even though the
same illness happened. Around 86% of the respondents aware that even
the same symptoms happened, still it is inappropriate to buy or request
the same antibiotics from the doctors. The data are shown in table 3.
Moreover, majority of the respondents know that antibiotics are useful
in treating bacterial infection such as UTI (96.46%), gonorrhoea
(88.50%) and skin or wound infection (82.30%) instead of any pain or
inflammation just like sore throat (57.52%), headache (3.54%) or any
viral infections such as HIV/AIDS (7.08%), cold and flu (8.85%).