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.