Table 3.

The association between personal behavior and antibiotic treatment response in children with acute bacterial paranasal sinusitis

	Never or seldom	Often or very frequently	P value
A. Nose blowing	N = 14	N = 62
First line antibiotic use	13 (92.9%)	53 (85.5%)	0.34
First line antibiotic treatment duration (days) (median, IQR)	14 (8–14)	10 (7–14)	0.08
Second line antibiotic use	3 (21.4%)	8 (12.9%)	0.35
Second line antibiotic treatment duration (days) (median, IQR)	14 (7–14)	11.5 (8.5–14)	1.0
Antibiotic use > 14 days	5 (35.7%)	7 (11.3%)	0.03
B. Nasal irrigation	N = 69	N = 7
First line antibiotic use	61 (88.4%)	6 (85.7%)	0.56
First line antibiotic treatment duration (days) (median, IQR)	10 (7–14)	12.5 (12–14)	0.19
Second line antibiotic use	10 (14.5%)	1 (14.3%)	1.0
Second line antibiotic treatment duration (days) (median, IQR)	11.5 (8–14)	21.0 (21.0)	0.13
Antibiotic use > 14 days	10 (14.5%)	2 (28.6%)	0.25

First line antibiotic referred to amoxicillin/clavulanate. Second line antibiotics included cefixime, ceftibuten, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethxazole. The regimen was prescribed based on clinical treatment response and nasal discharge culture result