A confirmation of the predictive utility of the Antibiotic Use Questionnaire.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The change in the efficacy of antimicrobial agents due to their misuse is implicated in extensive health and mortality related concerns. The Antibiotics Use Questionnaire (AUQ) is a theory driven measure based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TpB) factors that is designed to investigate drivers of antibiotic use behaviour. The objective of this study is to replicate the factor structure from the pilot study within a similar Australian confirmation cohort, and to extend this through investigating if the factor structure holds in a Chinese-identifying cohort.

Methods

The AUQ was disseminated to two cohorts: a confirmation cohort similar to the original study, and a Chinese identifying cohort. Data analysis was completed on the two data sets independently, and on

SUBMITTER: Miellet S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11256407 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature