Table 3.
Attitudes of veterinarians on AMU and AMR.
| Items | Strongly Disagree N (%) |
Disagree N (%) |
Agree N (%) |
Strongly Agree N (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antimicrobial resistance is a big threat for livestock and Poultry production | 2 (0.5) | 3 (0.7) | 47 (10.8) | 384 (88.1) |
| A single course of antibiotics can cause antimicrobial resistance | 12 (2.8) | 90 (20.6) | 170 (39.0) | 164 (37.6) |
| Irrational antibiotic use in animals leads to antibiotic resistance in humans | 2 (0.5) | 17 (3.9) | 152 (34.9) | 265 (60.8) |
| Antimicrobial resistance is a natural as well as anthropogenic phenomenon | 15 (3.4) | 99 (22.7) | 216 (49.5) | 106 (24.3) |
| Antimicrobial resistance will become a greater clinical problem in the future than it is today | - | 8 (1.8) | 77 (17.7) | 351 (80.5) |
| In recent years I have become more aware of the impacts of antimicrobial resistance | 2 (0.5) | 11 (2.5) | 149 (34.2) | 274 (62.8) |
| I find it hard to select the correct antimicrobial | 7 (1.6) | 80 (18.4) | 229 (52.5) | 120 (27.5) |
| I have enough sources of information about antimicrobials and their uses | 6 (1.4) | 81 (18.6) | 230 (52.8) | 119 (27.3) |
| New antimicrobials will be developed that will keep up with the problem of antimicrobial resistance | 15 (3.4) | 85 (19.5) | 226 (51.8) | 110 (25.2) |
| Restricting “priority antibiotics” for human use only | 18 (4.1) | 66 (15.1) | 157 (36.0) | 195 (44.7) |