Eliciting parents' decision-making to antibiotic use for upper respiratory tract infections: A discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Addressing antibiotic resistance is important for reducing parents' self-medication of antibiotics for children's upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). However, the decision-making process for parents who irrationally use such antibiotics is still unclear. In this study, we aimed to explore the reasons why parents self-medicate antibiotics for children's URTIs based on a discrete choice experiment.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review and in-depth interviews to identify the key attributes of choices when parents self-medicate antibiotics for children's URTIs. We developed and applied a discrete choice experiment in Wuhan and Chongqing, China. We used a mixed logit model to determine the impact of various attributes on parents' decisions, while we applied

SUBMITTER: Duan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11626686 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature