Table 1.

Medical Interns’ attitudes and perceptions about antimicrobial prescribing and resistance

Variables	Agree/strongly Agree N (%)	P - value
Inappropriate use of antimicrobials causes antimicrobial resistance	261 (96.6%)	0.071
Strong knowledge of antimicrobials is important in my medical career	266 (98.5%)	0.321
I would like more education on antimicrobials resistance	256 (94.8%)	0.092
Appropriate use of antimicrobials will reduce problems with antimicrobial-resistant organisms	258 (95.5%)	0.135
I would like more education on the appropriate use of antimicrobials	254 (94.0%)	0.219
Antimicrobials are overused nationally	245 (90.7%)	0.319
Inappropriate use of antimicrobials can harm patients	261 (96.6%)	0.424
New antimicrobials will be developed in the future that will keep up with the problem of antibiotics resistance	82 (30.4%)	0.021*
Poor infection-control practices cause spread of antimicrobial resistance	244 (90.4%)	0.950
Antimicrobials are overused in our hospitals	197 (72.9%)	0.032*
Prescribing broad-spectrum antimicrobials when equally effective, narrower-spectrum antimicrobials are available increases antimicrobial resistance	258 (95.5%)	0.670
Antimicrobial resistance is a significant problem in our hospitals	258 (95.5%)	0.561
Antimicrobial resistance is a significant problem nationally	252 (93.3%)	0.862

^*Refers to statistically significant differences (p-value < 0.05) in the percentages of different teaching hospitals using χ2 test