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%).