Table 3. Antibiotic prescribing rate according to the participant, gender and province (N=250).

	Antibiotic prescribed N=209	Antibiotic prescribed N=41	p-value
Participant †			0.807
Pharmacist	149 (83.2%)	30 (16.8%)
Assistant	60 (84.5%)	11 (15.5%)
Gender †			0.026*
Male	126 (88.1%)	17 (11.9%)
Female	83 (77.6%)	24 (22.4%)
Province of the Pharmacy ‡			0.271
Beirut	15 (75.0%)	5 (25.0%)
Mount Lebanon	90 (82.6%)	19 (17.4%)
North Lebanon	30 (83.3%)	6 (16.7%)
South Lebanon	27 (93.1%)	2 (6.9%)
Bekaa	35 (89.7%)	4 (10.3%)
Nabatiyeh	12 (70.6%)	5 (29.4%)

†The statistical test used was the Pearson Chi-Squared

‡The statistical test used was Fisher’s Exact

^*statistically significant