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

Table 5

Knowledge about antibiotic resistance.

Respondents’ perceptions: causes of antibiotic resistance	Rural %	Urban %
Body becomes resistant to antibiotics, which no longer work on the infection	65.92	70.68
Wrong indication/lower doses	54.31	35.34
Overuse of antibiotics	63.67	45.51
Respondents’ perception: antibiotic resistance-affected components
Is it an issue for those who take antibiotics on a regular basis?	33.83	47.57
Is it a global/serious public health issue?	65.54	39.7
Is it a problem for our country—India—and not for other countries?	29.59	18.05

The perception of the participants on what triggers antibiotic resistance and how antibiotic resistance affected various components, is shown. Against each query, a record of the responses from the rural and urban participants is given, in percentage.