Misuse Of Antimicrobial Drugs In Mukalla City

	Misuse Of Antimicrobial Drugs In Mukalla City
Medical Journal of Tikrit
Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 112, 2016, Pages 35-40
Abstract
This study is carried out to determine types of antimicrobials misuse with inappropriate use or prescribing of drugs, specially the antibiotics. 250 persons, 250 prescriptions & 60 pharmacists were included in this study. Findings revealed that antibiotics form 26.3% of total drugs used. Amoxicillin was found to be the highest one used among antibiotics. The most antimicrobial drug used in al Mukalla as over- the- counter product was found to be amoxicillin (39.40%). Those people who use antimicrobial drugs with prescription are 33.07% and those without prescription are 66.93%. 69.72% of patients use antimicrobial drugs according to doctors instructions, while 30.28% do use antimicrobial drugs not according to the instructions and the full time of the course of treatment, and the causes were; feeling of recovery (60.92%), carelessness (12.64%), distrust (6.90%) expensiveness of antimicrobial drugs (13.79%) and other causes (5.75%). 43.45% of those using antibiotics without prescription have some knowledge about complications of antimicrobial drugs and use it without prescription while 56.55% have no knowledge about the complications. 5.58% of those using antimicrobial drugs as over the counter were illetrate, 24.8% with low level of education, 9.92% intermediate level and 58.28% with high level of education. For the role of pharmacist, only 26.83% of pharmacists do not give the antimicrobial drugs without prescription and 47.39% of pharmacists give explanation to patients about how to use the antimicrobial drugs. 51.2% of the prescriptions contain only one antibiotic, 10%contain two antibiotics, and 38.8%were without antibiotics
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Misuse Of Antimicrobial Drugs In Mukalla City

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