A Study On The Rational Use Of Antibiotics And Its Influential Factors In Children’s Parents In Xiacheng District

Research purposeThe study aims to investigate the current status of the usage knowage of 3-14 years old children’s parents in Hangzhou Xiacheng district,find the weak spots in the awareness about bacterial drug resistance of antibiotics,antibiotic use common sense and correct discrimination of the existence of cognitive of parents,and analyze the possible influencing factors based on which to carry out health education,health intervention,reasonable use of antibiotics for children,provide empirical support and policy advocacy,protect children from abuse of antibiotics,eventually form a good social atmosphere of children the proper use of antibiotics,ensure the healthy growth of children.Research methodsThis study was conducted to investigate the parents of children aged 3-14 years in kindergarten and primary school in the district of zhaohui.The questionnaire,named"the knowledge,behavior and influencing factors of antibiotic use in children’s parents",was designed by zhejiang university and conducted by survey software to guide parents to cooperate with the investigation.This research mainly used the questionnaire content,about the social demographic characteristics,daily medicine knowledge,and the 10 kinds of commonly used antibiotics,focus on the children’s parents’ cognitive level of rational use of antibiotics and its possible influencing factors.After the investigation,quality assessment,deletion,timely detected,verified,cleared the missing item value and abnormal value,ensured that the original data was true and effective,and finally collated 713 valid questionnaires.The SPSS21.0 software was used to analyze the data.The measurement data were expressed by mean ± standard deviation,and enumeration data were expressed as a percentage.Statistical methods mainly were two-independent-sample t-test,t’ test、Kruskal-Wallis’s H test and Chi-square test,and the correlation test using Spearman correlation analysis.The multifactor analysis using binary logistic regression model.α=0.05.The results of the studyIn this investigation,the high or low scores of the awareness about bacterial drug resistance of antibiotics,common sense of using antibiotics and discriminant of common antibiotics were correlated positively with the educational level of the parents and the monthly income of the family,respectively.Namely,if the parents who had the higher education level or the higher monthly income of the family,they would had the higher scores of the awareness about bacterial drug resistance of antibiotics,common sense of using antibiotics and discriminant of common antibiotics.The high or low scores of correct cognitive awareness of antibiotics,common sense of using antibiotics and discriminant of common antibiotics were correlated positively with the parents medical education background and the nature of the work.Namely,if the parents who had medical education background or worked in medical and health institutions,they would had the higher scores of correct cognitive awareness of antibiotics,common sense of using antibiotics and discriminant of common antibiotics.The results of this study showed that the educational level of the parents,whether they had medical education background and whether they worked in the medical and health institutions were the influencing factors of the knowledge about antibiotics’ rational use among children’s parents in Xiacheng district.Discussions and SuggestionsThe degree of the knowledge about antibiotics’ rational use among children’s parents was not high,which need to be strengthened.There existed weakness points on the common sense of using antibiotics,and the ability to discriminate common antibiotics need to be improved.The educational level of the parents,whether they had medical education background and whether they worked in the medical and health institutions were the influencing factors of the knowledge about antibiotics’ rational use among children’s parents in Xiacheng district in this study.Therefore,health education need to focus on children’s parents who had low education,low income,without medical education background,or didn’t work in the medical and health institutions.Using a variety of ways to carry out the relevant knowledge about antibiotics on public health education and publicity,to strengthen guidance and intervention on behavior of correctly using antibiotics among children’s parent.