Table 3.

χ ² test for assessing several sociodemographic and irrational use of antibiotics related potential factors associated with antibiotic resistance among antibiotic users of the study participants (N = 681).

Variables	Options	Experience on “antibiotics were not working”
		Yes		No		p‐value
		N	%	N	%
Gender	Male	153	34.0	297	66.0	0.107
	Female	93	40.3	138	59.7
Study background	Science	186	37.6	309	62.4	0.297
	Arts	42	30.4	96	69.6
	Commerce	18	37.5	30	62.5
Age (years)	18–25	165	39.0	258	61.0	0.045
	above 25	81	31.4	177	68.6
Level of education	1st/2nd	81	53.6	70	46.4	<0.001
	3rd/4th/5th	66	29.3	159	70.7
	Master's/higher	99	32.5	206	67.5
Occupation	Student	219	36.9	375	63.1	0.290
	Teacher	27	31.0	60	69.0
Medication style	Doctor's prescription	195	38.2	315	61.8	0.048
	Other ways	51	29.8	120	70.2
Main reason for AB use	Fever, common cold, and cough	135	39.5	207	60.5	<0.001
	Dysentery/diarrhea/food poisoning	27	39.1	42	60.9
	Infection	42	33.3	84	66.7
	Abdominal/other pain	27	60.0	18	40.0
	Other purposes	15	15.2	84	84.8
Duration of AB use (days)	1–3	75	34.7	141	65.3	<0.001
	4–6	126	44.2	159	55.8
	7–10	27	29.0	66	71.0
	above 10	18	20.7	69	79.3
Completion of the dosage regimen	Yes	159	33.1	321	66.9	0.012
	No	87	43.3	114	56.7
Lack of cautiousness about ABR	Yes	135	33.3	270	66.7	0.066
	No	111	40.2	165	59.8

Note: Bold values are statistically significant.