Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice toward Antibiotic Use among Harar City and Its Surrounding Community, Eastern Ethiopia

Table 2

Knowledge towards use of antibiotics among Harar city and its surrounding residents, February 1 to May 1, 2017 (n = 384).

Knowledge Statement	Yes	NO	I don’t know
Different antibiotics are needed to cure different disease	369(96%)	6(1%)	9(2%)
Antibiotics are effective against bacteria	346(90.1%)	13(3.4%)	25(6.5%)
Antibiotics speed up the recovery from most coughs and colds	319(83.1%)	51(13.3%)	14(3.6%)
Antibiotics are effective against viral diseases	179(46.6%)	141(36.7%)	64(16.7%)
If you get side effects during a course of antibiotics treatment you should stop taking them as soon as possible	349(90.9)	34(8.8%)	1(0.3%)
If you get some kind of skin reaction when using an antibiotic, you should not use the same antibiotic again	276(71.8%)	104(27.1%)	4(1.1%)
The unnecessarily use of antibiotics can increase the resistance of bacteria to them	301(78.4%)	27(7.1%)	56(14.5%)
Resistance to antibiotics is a worldwide problem	121(31.5%)	134(34.9%)	129(33.6%)