3.4 Knowledge of antibiotics resistance among the respondents
In this study, among all the terms related to antibiotics and its resistance, majority of them were aware of the antibiotic resistance (n = 108, 95.58%), followed by drug resistance (n = 101, 89.38%), antibiotic-resistant bacteria (n = 99, 87.61%), superbugs (n = 89, 78.76%), antimicrobial resistance (n = 85, 75.22%) and AMR (n = 40, 35.40%). Regarding these terminologies, most of the respondents heard them from doctors (n= 58, 51.67%), followed by media (n = 20, 17.67%) and pharmacist (n = 12, 10.71%) as shown in table 4.
Furthermore, the respondent’s knowledge on antibiotic resistance was assessed using True or False type of questions. The overwhelming majority of participants were aware that many infections and bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to the antibiotic and are very difficult to treat (n = 112, 98.12%; n = 110, 97.35% respectively). Almost all the respondents (n = 110, 97.35%) agreed that “antibiotic resistance is an issue that could affect them and also their families”. Apart from statement one and seven, other items are statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05). The details are presented in table 5.