Level of Awareness Towards Antibiotic Resistance Among Pharmacy Students
Christine P Antonio | Cherry Mae A Delos Reyes | Fatima Raaya K Escandar
Abstract:
This study was conducted to ascertain the level of awareness
of pharmacy students towards antibiotic resistance. It
specifically answered the questions: 1. What is the level of
awareness towards antibiotic resistance among Pharmacy
students in terms of? 1.1 Knowledge, 1.2 Attitude and 1.3
Practices. 2. Is there a significant difference on the level of
awareness towards antibiotic resistance among pharmacy
students when grouped according to demographic profile?
Weighted mean was used to ascertain level of awareness of the
students of the pharmacy program of Universidad de
Zamboanga towards antibiotic resistance in terms of
Knowledge, Attitude and Practices. T-test and Analysis of
Variance (ANOVA) was used to determine the significant
difference on the level of awareness towards antibiotic
resistance of the pharmacy program of Universidad de
Zamboanga when grouped according to demographic profile.
The results show that the level of awareness of pharmacy
students towards antibiotic resistance has a graded mean of
response of 3.33. It means that the level of awareness of
pharmacy students towards antibiotic resistance is in
agreeable level. The findings also suggests that there is no
significant difference in the level of awareness of respondents
when sex, age, year level, ethnicity and socio-economic status
were considered.
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