Mother’s Misusing of Antibiotics for their Preschool Children | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 72, Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 980-991 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.237318 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Walaa Abdelsamea Mahmoud; Seham Guirguis Ragheb,; Shimaa Fathy Miky | ||
| Department of Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University- Cairo-Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Misusing of antibiotics is a vital societal health problem. The preschool children are the possibility of receiving unnecessary antibiotics for any infections, parent's misconceptions about antibiotic usage and resistance persist, considered the crucial community issues that threaten the preschool children. Aims: the aim of this study was to assess mother’s misusing of antibiotics for their preschool children. Design: descriptive design was used to this study. Setting: the study was conducted at Pediatric outpatient clinic affiliated to medical health Center at Qalyub Station. Sample: a purposive sample of 100 mothers attending at pediatric clinics with their preschool children free from chronic diseases. Tools: two tools were used for data collection, first tool structured interviewing questionnaire divided into three parts, socio-demographic data of mothers and children, knowledge regarding antibiotic misusing and reported mother’s practices related to misuses of antibiotics to their children , second tool to assess mother’s attitude related to misuses of antibiotics. Results: the mean age of the studied mother’s was 27.3 ± 5.28 years, More than half of the studied mothers had unsatisfactory level of knowledge regarding using/misuse of antibiotics, More than half of the studied mothers had good practice score and More than half of the studied mothers had positive attitude towards misuse of antibiotics. Conclusion: statistically significant relation between mother’s socio demographic characteristics and their knowledge about misusing of antibiotics, no relation between knowledge levels and practice levels among mothers ,no relation between practice levels and attitude levels among mothers. Recommendations: health education program should be developed for increasing awareness of mothers about improve their knowledge and practice towards the safe use of antibiotics. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Antibiotics; Misusing; Preschool children | ||
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