Knowledge and antibiotic use behavior of undergraduate students in Phuket Province
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Dec 30, 2021
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knowledge behavior antibiotics use undergraduate students
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This descriptive research aimed to study knowledge and behavior of undergraduate students in using antibiotics and factors predicting antibiotics use behavior. The population was undergraduate students from Phuket Rajabhat University, Rajapruk University and Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus. The 400 samples were randomly stratified to the study. Data collecting by the questionnaire. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and stepwise multiple regression analysis were used to analyze data. The results revealed that the sample (46.25%) had knowledge of antibiotic use at the low level. Their antibiotic practice was at the moderate level (mean=2.77, S.D.=0.97). The significant variables which predicted antibiotics use behavior including knowledge about antibiotics use (β = .465, p < .001) income (β = .130, p < .01) female (β = .126, p < .01) experience in using antibiotics (β = .115, p < .01) underlying disease (β = .108, p < .05) and faculty of science and technology (β = .093, p < .05), respectively. The percentage of total variance explained by all study variables was 31.10 percent. (R2 = .311, p < .001). The results of this study could be used as basic information to promote the right knowledge and behavior of undergraduate students in using antibiotics.
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