Knowledge and Attitude toward Antibiotic Use and Identification of Financially Feasible Options to Curb the Spread of Antibiotics in Environment
Table 3
Level of knowledge on antibiotics: antibiotic knowledge, source, and ability to differentiate them from other drugs.
Subthemes
Total
Rural
Urban
N
%
N
%
N
%
Heard of antibiotics
Yes
927
95.37
254
95.13
643
96.69
No
22
2.26
9
3.37
11
1.65
Maybe
13
1.34
3
1.12
8
1.2
Do not know
10
1.03
1
0.37
3
0.45
Source of knowledge
Books
476
48.97
155
58.05
307
46.17
Common knowledge
578
59.46
204
76.4
365
54.88
Advertisement
205
21.09
63
23.6
131
19.7
Able to differentiate between antibiotics and other drugs
Yes
539
55.45
148
55.43
376
56.54
Cannot differentiate
433
44.55
119
44.73
289
43.46
Responses were collected from 972 participants, and the response against each possible answer is estimated as the total percentage, separately for the urban and rural localities.
