Table 3.

Parent/guardian and clinician opinions about effectiveness and safety of probiotics for prevention and treatment of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea

			Strongly agreed	Agreed	Neutral	Disagreed	Strongly disagreed	Do not know	P value
Prevention	Effective	Parents n=126	19 (15%)	41 (33%)	22 (17%)	5 (4%)	6 (5%)	33 (26%)	0.001
		Clinicians n=44	10 (23 %)	24 (54%)	6 (14%)	4 (9%)	0	0
	Safe	Parents n=123	38 (31%)	38 (31%)	26 (21%)	0	3 (2%)	18 (15%)	0.000
		Clinicians n=44	17 (39%)	26 (59%)	1 (2%)	0	0	0
Treatment	Effective	Parents n=126	17 (14%)	37 (29%)	23 (18%)	3 (2%)	6 (5%)	40 (32%)	0.000
		Clinicians n=43	6 (14%)	23 (53%)	11 (26%)	3 (7%)	0	0
	Safe	Parents n=123	34 (28%)	39 (32%)	21 (17%)	1 (1%)	4 (3%)	24 (19%)	0.000
		Clinicians n=43	13 (30%)	28 (65%)	2 (5%)	0	0	0

Data are presented as n (%).

AAD, antibiotic-associated diarrhoea; NS, non-significant.