TABLE 2.
Survey items
| Question | Answer options | Timinga |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre | Post | ||
| Q1: Do you know what kind of diseases antibiotics are effective against? Please select all applicable answers. | Common cold | • | |
| Influenza virus | |||
| Norovirus | |||
| Cystitis | |||
| Pneumonia | |||
| Otitis media | |||
| Diarrhea | |||
| Do not know | |||
| Others | |||
| Q2: What kind of medicine would you like to receive when seeing a doctor for the common cold? Please select all applicable answers. | Antitussive | • | |
| Antipyretic | |||
| The medicine that suppresses runny nose | |||
| Antibiotics | |||
| Expectorant | |||
| Analgesic | |||
| Troche | |||
| Gargle | |||
| Stomach medicine | |||
| Others | |||
| Nothing applies | |||
| Q3: Do you take the full dose of antibiotics prescribed? | Take up all they prescribed | • | |
| Stop taking them when the condition is healed | |||
| Forget to take them and have not taken up all | |||
| Do not take them as much as possible from the beginning | |||
| Q4: How do you manage leftover antibiotics? Please select all applicable answers. | Keeping them for use when needed | • | |
| Take them when falling ill | |||
| Giving them to others | |||
| Throwing them away | |||
| Consult the pharmacy and throw them away | |||
| Others | |||
| Q5: Have you ever taken antibiotics obtained from your family or others? | Yes | • | |
| No | |||
| Q6: What do you think about taking antibiotics obtained from your family or others? | Try not to take them | • | |
| Worried because I have not seen a doctor, but take them | |||
| Convenient because I do not have to go to the clinic | |||
| No problem if the symptoms are the same as before | |||
| Others | |||
| Q7: Do you know about antimicrobial resistance? | I know | • | |
| I have only heard (but do not know) | |||
| I do not know | |||
| Q8: Answer the following statements regarding treatment and diagnosis of infectious disease | • | • | |
| C-reactive protein is a specific marker for bacterial infection. | True / False / Do not know | ||
| Fever is a specific marker for bacterial infection. | True / False / Do not know | ||
| Blood culture after antibiotic administration is useful for identifying the pathogen of infectious disease. | True / False / Do not know | ||
| Clinical breakpoint is the minimum concentration of antibiotics that can inhibit the growth of bacteria. | True / False / Do not know | ||
| Gram-positive cocci are stained by Gram stain. | True / False / Do not know | ||
| Broth microdilution method is one of the quantitative susceptibility methods. | True / False / Do not know | ||
| Q9: Which pathological conditions do you think the treatment using antibiotics is recommended for? Please select all applicable answers. | Common cold in adults | • | • |
| Viral pharyngitis in children | |||
| Mild acute nasal sinusitis in children | |||
| Acute bronchitis in adults without underlying health conditions, such as chronic respiratory diseases | |||
| Nothing applies | |||
| Q10: Which antibiotics are recommended for administration in a single dose but not for a divided dose when the daily dose is the same? | Levofloxacin (new quinolone) | • | • |
| Ampicillin (penicillin) | |||
| Meropenem (carbapenem) | |||
| Cefazolin (first-generation cephalosporin) | |||
| Gentamicin (aminoglycoside) | |||
| Nothing applies | |||
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Some questions were asked prelecture and also postlecture.