Risk Factors of Antibiotic Misuse for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Children: Results from a Cross-Sectional Knowledge-Attitude-Practice Study in Greece
Table 1
Parents (%) who did not answer correctly in the selected questions of the knowledge section.
Q15
P value
Q17, Q18, Q19, Q22
P value
Athens
8.4
1.7
Northern Greece
9.7
1.9
Central Greece
9.2
3.1
Islands versus
13.9
3.8
Peloponnese
9.1
1.3
Mothers
6.9
<
1.6
<
Fathers
19
4.1
31–45 years
9.1
<
1.9
<31 or >45 years
13.5
3.5
Insurance
Public
9.4
2.1
0.29
Private
16.3
1.7
Public and private
8.3
2.6
None
31.3
12.5
Education of father
Primary school
17
<
4.3
<
Secondary school
15.7
2.9
High school
9.3
1.9
College
5.3
1.5
University
4.1
0.5
Education of mother
Primary school
24.4
<
7.9
<
Secondary school
22.6
4.6
High school
8.8
2.1
College
4.1
0.8
University
4.3
0.5
High
5.6
<
1.3
<
Moderate
8.5
2
Low
18.8
4.3
Immigrants
35.9
<
10.3
<
Nonimmigrants
6.7
1.3
Residence
Big Towns
8.8
2.2
0.773
Small Towns
10.3
2
Villages
13.1
2.4
Number of children
2-3
8.7
<
2.2
0.513
<2 >3
13.4
2.2
Couples
9.4
0.217
2.1
0.056
Singles
11
3.7
Experience of recurrent URIs
Yes
4.2
<
2.5
0.256
No
10.6
2.1
Pediatrician-parent relation
Friends or relatives
8.3
2
0.318
Typical
10.6
2.2
Access to healthcare system
Good
11.5
<
3
Moderate
8.4
1.6
Poor
5.7
1.2
Bold letters and *: variables with elevated level of significance after univariate analysis. :
self-assessment as perceived by the parents at the time of the survey.
