Table 9 Health professionals’ attitudes on causes of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, October to November 2015
Statements on causes of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions | Responses | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Strongly agree | Agree | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Don’t know | ||||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions are by patient push | 35 | 16.1 | 81 | 37.2 | 54 | 24.8 | 42 | 19.3 | 6 | 2.8 |
Unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions are due to treatment failure | 43 | 19.7 | 98 | 45 | 60 | 27.5 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1.8 |
Unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions are for critically ill or immune-compromised patient | 47 | 21.6 | 57 | 26.1 | 94 | 43.1 | 16 | 7.3 | 4 | 1.8 |
Unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions are for profit of hospitals/health centers | 23 | 10.6 | 58 | 26.6 | 64 | 29.4 | 66 | 30.3 | 7 | 3.2 |