Table 5 Attitudes of health professionals towards interventions of antimicrobial resistance, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, October to November 2015
Possible interventions | Responses | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Very useful | Useful | Not useful | Not sure | |||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Reduction of antibiotic use for outpatient setting | 45 | 20.6 | 135 | 61.9 | 29 | 13.3 | 9 | 4.1 |
Access to current antibiogram | 81 | 37.2 | 115 | 52.8 | 5 | 2.3 | 17 | 7.8 |
Antimicrobial usage policy | 141 | 64.7 | 66 | 30.3 | 3 | 1.4 | 8 | 3.7 |
Updating about local antibiotic resistance patterns | 159 | 72.9 | 41 | 18.8 | 3 | 1.4 | 15 | 6.9 |
Establish national antimicrobial resistance surveillance | 140 | 64.2 | 71 | 32.6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3.2 |
Establish hospital infection control committee | 155 | 71.1 | 63 | 28.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Develop institutional guideline for antimicrobial use | 146 | 67 | 65 | 29.8 | 7 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 |
Education on antimicrobial therapy for prescribers | 148 | 67.9 | 59 | 27.1 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Establish microbiology diagnostic services | 149 | 68.3 | 66 | 30.3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1.4 |