What the public in England know about antibiotic use and resistance in 2020: a face-to-face questionnaire survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe public attitudes and knowledge around antibiotic activity, resistance and use.

Design

Face-to-face household 18 question survey using computer-assisted data collection undertaken by Ipsos Market and Opinion Research International.

Setting

Randomly selected households across England, January-February 2020.

Participants

2022 adults (aged 15+,) including 521 black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) participants, and 406 aged 15-25 years olds.

Main outcome measures

Responses to questions about antibiotic activity, resistance and expectations for antibiotics and trust in healthcare professionals. Analyses were weighted to obtain estimates representative of the population with multivariable analysis undertaken for questions with five or m

SUBMITTER: McNulty C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8987214 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature