Access to medicines for acute illness and antibiotic use in residents: A medicines household survey in Sichuan Province, western China.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To investigate medicine accessibility and antibiotic use in households in western China using World Health Organization (WHO) methodology as well as to identify the influencing factor of care-seeking outside the home and primary determinant factors that influence the use of antibiotics in Chinese residents. METHODS:A cross-sectional household survey was conducted from March to July 2015, and 1200 households from six cities in Sichuan China were selected for a questionnaire survey using stratified multistage random cluster sampling. We used logistic regression models to identify the determinants of care-seeking outside the home and subsequent antibiotic use among the surveyed residents. RESULTS:Overall, 1103 valid questionnaires were collected, and 458 households reported that the

SUBMITTER: Deng P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6095499 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature