Knowledge and Attitude toward Antibiotic Use and Identification of Financially Feasible Options to Curb the Spread of Antibiotics in Environment

Table 4

Level of knowledge on antibiotics.

Subthemes		Rural		Urban
		N	%	N	%
Who prescribed the antibiotic?	Doctor	227	85.02	572	86.02
	Paramedic	55	20.61	83	12.48
	Self	37	13.86	52	7.8
Belief that different antibiotics are needed to cure different diseases	Agree	196	73.41	540	81.2
	Neutral	52	19.48	97	14.59
	Disagree	19	7.12	28	4.21

Responses against antibiotic prescription and different antibiotic cures for different diseases are shown. All the responses of the 972 participants included in this study were recorded separately under the categories, rural and urban.