Public Awareness about Antibiotic Use and Resistance among Residents in Highland Areas of Vietnam

Table 2

Awareness and practice about safe antibiotic use.

Characteristics	Male		Female		Total		p-value
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Being aware of prescription drugs (n=1000)	307	72.9	335	57.9	642	64.2	<0.01
Being aware of antibiotic (n=1000)	306	72.7	368	63.6	674	67.4	<0.01
Need prescriptions when using antibiotic (n=674)	266	86.9	297	80.7	563	83.5	0.09
Prescribers (n=563)
Physicians at medical facility	246	92.5	288	97.0	534	94.9	0.02
Drug sellers at drug store	25	9.4	20	6.7	45	8.0	0.24
Friends/relatives/neighbourhoods	0	0.0	2	0.7	2	0.4	0.18
Old prescriptions	1	0.4	1	0.3	2	0.4	0.94
Other	3	1.1	0	0.0	3	0.5	0.07
Solutions when health was not improved after the antibiotic course (n=674)
Replace to other antibiotics	62	20.3	85	23.1	147	21.8	0.38
Increase dose	7	2.3	12	3.3	19	2.8	0.45
Re-examination	175	57.2	188	51.2	363	53.9	0.11
Ask advices from drug sellers/physicians	59	19.3	121	32.9	180	26.7	<0.01
Ask friends/relatives/neighbourhoods	0	0.0	3	0.8	3	0.5	0.11
Other	19	6.2	15	4.1	34	5.0	0.21
Unknown	25	8.2	17	4.6	42	6.2	0.06
Negative effects of antibiotic use (n=674)
AR	51	16.7	76	20.7	127	18.8	0.19
Drug allergy	86	28.1	105	28.5	191	28.3	0.90
Harm to health	125	40.9	151	41.0	276	41.0	0.96
Other	5	1.6	15	4.1	20	3.0	0.06
Unknown	77	25.2	92	25.0	169	25.1	0.96
Being aware of AR (n=674)	182	59.5	194	52.7	376	55.8	0.08
Definition of AR (n=376)
Condition that bacteria change to respond the use of antibiotic	153	84.1	153	78.9	306	81.4	0.20
Occur when using antibiotics without prescriptions, or sufficient dosage or time	48	26.4	47	24.2	95	25.3	0.63
Other	5	2.8	10	5.2	15	4.0	0.23
Unknown	11	6.0	11	5.7	22	5.9	0.88