Table 2.
Perception of health professionals on scope of antibiotic resistance in the hospitals, in 2022, (N = 181).
| Items and Level of agreement on each statement | Category of Profession |
P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physician (%) | Pharmacy (%) | Total (%) | |||
| Antibiotic resistance is a significant problem worldwide | Disagree | 7(0.5) | 7 (0.5) | 14 (7.7) | 0.712 |
| Neutral | 3(0.5) | 3(0.5) | 6 (3.3) | ||
| Agree | 96 (59.6) | 65(40.4) | 161 (89.0) | ||
| Antibiotic resistance is a significant problem in my country | Disagree | 5 (45.5) | 6(54.5) | 11 (6.1) | 0.532 |
| Neutral | 5(71.4) | 2(28.6) | 7 (3.9) | ||
| Agree | 96(58.9) | 67(41.1) | 163 (90.1) | ||
| Antibiotic resistance is a significant problem in my hospital | Disagree | 4 (40) | 6(60) | 10 (5.5) | 0.23 |
| Neutral | 29(67.4) | 14(32.6) | 43 (23.8) | ||
| Agree | 73(57.0) | 55(43.0) | 128 (70.7) | ||
| Antibiotic resistance is a problem in my daily practice | Disagree | 10(52.6) | 9(47.3) | 19 (10.5) | 0.84 |
| Neutral | 32(60.4) | 21(39.6) | 53 (29.3) | ||
| Agree | 64(58.7) | 45(41.2) | 109 (60.2) | ||
| A patient is likely to develop drug-resistant infection during their hospital stay at this hospital | Disagree | 19(63.3) | 11(36.7) | 30 (16.6) | 0.842 |
| Neutral | 25(58.1) | 18(41.9) | 43 (23.8) | ||
| Agree | 62(57.4) | 46(42.6) | 108 (59.7) | ||
| I think a very high proportion (>30 %) of gram-negative infections are highly drug- resistant in this hospital (resistant to all cephalosporins, and some are even resistant to carbapenems) | Disagree | 19(70.3) | 8(29.7) | 27 (14.9) | 0.035a |
| Neutral | 64(62.7) | 38(36.3) | 102 (56.4) | ||
| Agree | 23(44.2) | 29(55.8) | 52 (28.7) | ||
| I think a very high proportion (>30 %) of Staphylococcal infections are resistant b 0020to methicillin (MRSA) in this hospital | Disagree | 24(72.7) | 9(27.3) | 33 (18.2) | 0.001a |
| Neutral | 62(65.3) | 33(34.7) | 95 (52.5) | ||
| Agree | 20(37.7) | 33(62.3) | 53 (29.3) | ||
*Physicians more agreed.
a
Pharmacy professionals agreed.