Table 1.

Pharmacy Students’ Attitudes and Perceptions About Antimicrobial Prescribing and Resistance: Percentage Who Agree/Strongly Agree With Comparison Across Schools

Perceptions and Attitudes	Agree/Strongly Agree, % (% Range by School) N = 579	P Valuea
Antimicrobials are overused nationally in healthcare	96 (89–100)	.11
Antimicrobials are overused at the hospitals where I have rotated	69 (53–78)	.11
Antimicrobial resistance is not a significant problem nationally	2 (0–7)	.52
Antimicrobial resistance is not a significant problem at the hospitals where I have rotated	5 (0–10)	.29
Better use of antimicrobials will reduce problems with antimicrobial-resistant organisms	97 (86–100)	.48
Appropriate use of antimicrobials can cause antimicrobial resistance	47 (31–68)	.002
Strong knowledge of antimicrobials is important in my pharmacy career	94 (86–97)	.66
I would like more education on antimicrobial resistance	82 (71–87)	.92
I would like more education on the appropriate use of antimicrobials	89 (78–100)	.28
New antimicrobials will be developed in the future that will keep up with the problem of “resistance”	27 (6–54)	.003
Prescribing broad-spectrum antimicrobials when equally effective, narrower-spectrum antimicrobials are available increases antimicrobial resistance	92 (86–100)	.06
Poor infection-control practices by healthcare professionals cause spread of antimicrobial resistance	89 (71–93)	.80
Inappropriate use of antimicrobials causes antimicrobial resistance	98 (86–100)	.006
Inappropriate use of antimicrobials can harm patients	97 (89–100)	.12

^a P < .05 represents a significant difference across pharmacy schools.