Table 5.
Themes | BCW Framework |
Sources of Behaviour
(COM-B) |
|
---|---|---|---|
Intervention Functions | Policy Category | ||
Factors contributing to irrational use of antibiotics include | |||
Lack of continuous AMR training | Training | Social planning | Psychological capabilities |
Poor AMR knowledge | Enablement | Psychological capabilities | |
Limited diagnostic services | Service provision | Physical capabilities | |
Staff shortages | Service provision | ||
Pressure from patients | Persuasion/Coercion | Reflective motivation | |
Incentives from pharmaceutical companies | Incentivisation | Communication/marketing | |
Recommended strategies to improve antibiotic use | |||
Education to increase awareness | Education/Enablement | Automatic motivation | |
Checks/audits/monitoring antibiotic use | Regulations | ||
Upgrade laboratory services/purchase lab items for testing | Environmental restructuring | Physical opportunity | |
Policies | Enablement | Guidelines | Automatic motivation |
Training for prescribers | Training/Enablement | Automatic motivation | |
Employ more staff to build workforce | Environmental restructuring | Social planning/Service provision | Physical opportunity |
Barriers to implementing these AMS intervention | |||
Lack of funding in healthcare | Fiscal measures | ||
Staff shortages | |||
Failure to enforce laws | Regulation/Legislation |
AMR—Antimicrobial Resistance; BCW—Behaviour Change Wheel; COM-B—Capability, Opportunity and Motivation on Behaviours.