Investigating knowledge regarding antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among pharmacy students in Sri Lankan universities

Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major challenge for global health care. Pharmacists play a key role in the health care setting to help support the quality use of medicines. The education, training, and experiences of pharmacy students have the potential to impact on patterns of ant...

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Main Authors:	Sakeena, M. H.F., Bennett, Alexandra A., Jamshed, Shazia Qasim, Mohamed, Fahim, Herath, Dilanthi R., Gawarammana, Indika Bandara, McLachlan, Andrew
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Published:	BioMed Central Ltd. 2018
Subjects:	RS Pharmacy and materia medica
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spelling	iium-637552019-01-04T02:51:41Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/63755/ Investigating knowledge regarding antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among pharmacy students in Sri Lankan universities Sakeena, M. H.F. Bennett, Alexandra A. Jamshed, Shazia Qasim Mohamed, Fahim Herath, Dilanthi R. Gawarammana, Indika Bandara McLachlan, Andrew RS Pharmacy and materia medica Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major challenge for global health care. Pharmacists play a key role in the health care setting to help support the quality use of medicines. The education, training, and experiences of pharmacy students have the potential to impact on patterns of antibiotic use in community and hospital settings. The aim of this study was to investigate antibiotic use, knowledge of antibiotics and AMR among undergraduate pharmacy students at Sri Lankan universities and to compare this between junior and senior pharmacy student groups. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the six universities in Sri Lanka that offer pharmacy undergraduate programmes. All pharmacy students in each university were invited to participate in this study using a self-administered questionnaire with ethics approval. The study instrument comprised five major sections: demographic information, selfreported antibiotic use, knowledge of antibiotic uses in human health, knowledge of AMR and antibiotic use in agriculture. Descriptive data analyses were conducted and Chi-squared analysis was used to explore associations between different variables and level of pharmacy education. Results: Four hundred sixty-six pharmacy students completed the questionnaire. A majority of participants (76%) reported antibiotic use in the past year. More than half (57%) of the junior pharmacy students incorrectly indicated that antibiotic use is appropriate for the management of cold and flu conditions. Senior pharmacy students (n = 206) reported significantly better antibiotic knowledge than junior students (n=260), p < 0.05. Overall pharmacy students showed good understanding of AMR and their knowledge level increased as the year of pharmacy study increased. Conclusions: This study found that pharmacy students commonly report using antibiotics. Junior students report some misconceptions about antimicrobials. A comparison between junior and senior pharmacy students suggests that pharmacy education is associated with improved understanding of appropriate antibiotic use and AMR among undergraduate pharmacy students in Sri Lanka. BioMed Central Ltd. 2018-05-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63755/1/Investigating%20knowledge%20regarding%20antibiotics%20and%20antibiotic%20resistance.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63755/7/63755_Investigating%20knowledge%20regarding%20antibiotics%20and%20antimicrobial%20_scopus.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63755/13/63755_Investigating%20regarding%20antibiotics.WOS.pdf Sakeena, M. H.F. and Bennett, Alexandra A. and Jamshed, Shazia Qasim and Mohamed, Fahim and Herath, Dilanthi R. and Gawarammana, Indika Bandara and McLachlan, Andrew (2018) Investigating knowledge regarding antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among pharmacy students in Sri Lankan universities. BMC Infectious Diseases, 18 (1). pp. 1-11. ISSN 1471-2334 https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-018-3107-8 10.1186/s12879-018-3107-8
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spellingShingle	RS Pharmacy and materia medica Sakeena, M. H.F. Bennett, Alexandra A. Jamshed, Shazia Qasim Mohamed, Fahim Herath, Dilanthi R. Gawarammana, Indika Bandara McLachlan, Andrew Investigating knowledge regarding antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among pharmacy students in Sri Lankan universities
description	Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major challenge for global health care. Pharmacists play a key role in the health care setting to help support the quality use of medicines. The education, training, and experiences of pharmacy students have the potential to impact on patterns of antibiotic use in community and hospital settings. The aim of this study was to investigate antibiotic use, knowledge of antibiotics and AMR among undergraduate pharmacy students at Sri Lankan universities and to compare this between junior and senior pharmacy student groups. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the six universities in Sri Lanka that offer pharmacy undergraduate programmes. All pharmacy students in each university were invited to participate in this study using a self-administered questionnaire with ethics approval. The study instrument comprised five major sections: demographic information, selfreported antibiotic use, knowledge of antibiotic uses in human health, knowledge of AMR and antibiotic use in agriculture. Descriptive data analyses were conducted and Chi-squared analysis was used to explore associations between different variables and level of pharmacy education. Results: Four hundred sixty-six pharmacy students completed the questionnaire. A majority of participants (76%) reported antibiotic use in the past year. More than half (57%) of the junior pharmacy students incorrectly indicated that antibiotic use is appropriate for the management of cold and flu conditions. Senior pharmacy students (n = 206) reported significantly better antibiotic knowledge than junior students (n=260), p < 0.05. Overall pharmacy students showed good understanding of AMR and their knowledge level increased as the year of pharmacy study increased. Conclusions: This study found that pharmacy students commonly report using antibiotics. Junior students report some misconceptions about antimicrobials. A comparison between junior and senior pharmacy students suggests that pharmacy education is associated with improved understanding of appropriate antibiotic use and AMR among undergraduate pharmacy students in Sri Lanka.
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author	Sakeena, M. H.F. Bennett, Alexandra A. Jamshed, Shazia Qasim Mohamed, Fahim Herath, Dilanthi R. Gawarammana, Indika Bandara McLachlan, Andrew
author_facet	Sakeena, M. H.F. Bennett, Alexandra A. Jamshed, Shazia Qasim Mohamed, Fahim Herath, Dilanthi R. Gawarammana, Indika Bandara McLachlan, Andrew
author_sort	Sakeena, M. H.F.
title	Investigating knowledge regarding antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among pharmacy students in Sri Lankan universities
title_short	Investigating knowledge regarding antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among pharmacy students in Sri Lankan universities
title_full	Investigating knowledge regarding antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among pharmacy students in Sri Lankan universities
title_fullStr	Investigating knowledge regarding antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among pharmacy students in Sri Lankan universities
title_full_unstemmed	Investigating knowledge regarding antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among pharmacy students in Sri Lankan universities
title_sort	investigating knowledge regarding antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among pharmacy students in sri lankan universities
publisher	BioMed Central Ltd.
publishDate	2018
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/63755/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/63755/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/63755/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/63755/1/Investigating%20knowledge%20regarding%20antibiotics%20and%20antibiotic%20resistance.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/63755/7/63755_Investigating%20knowledge%20regarding%20antibiotics%20and%20antimicrobial%20_scopus.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/63755/13/63755_Investigating%20regarding%20antibiotics.WOS.pdf
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Investigating knowledge regarding antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among pharmacy students in Sri Lankan universities

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