Nursing-based intervention to optimize the self-prescribed and the misuse of antibiotics among mothers of children less than 5 years

• Main Authors: Sameer Hamdy Hafez (Author), Sabry M. Tamam (Author), Noha Ahmed Mohamed (Author), Elwaleed Idris Sagiron (Author), Yahya Hussein Ahmed Abdalla (Author), Mohammed Ateeg Abdelrahman Ahmed (Author), Sharfeldin Mohammed Shuib (Author), Elsadig Eltaher Hamed (Author), Mohamed Saied Harfoush (Author), Mohammed Abdulrahman Alshahrani (Author), Ahmad A. Alshehri (Author), Ahmed Salah Ali (Author), Ahmed Loutfy (Author), Abdalla Mohamed Ahmed Osman Abdalla (Author), Sadeq Abdo Mohammed Alwesabi (Author), Ateya Megahed Ibrahim (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

Background: The fact that bacteria have no geographical boundaries has made bacterial resistance to antibiotics a worldwide issue that requires collaboration and unity to address. Aim: evaluate the effect of nursing-based intervention to optimize the self-prescribed and the misuse of antibiotics among mothers of children less than 5 years. Methods: A quasi-experimental design was used to conduct this study. The study was conducted in Maternal Child Health Centers in Mansoura City & Beni-Suef City, Egypt, 100 participants were included in the study. A structured interview questionnaire was used to collect the data, which consisted of five parts; socio-demographic data, knowledge questions about antibiotics and their resistance, attitude scale towards self-prescribed antibiotics, questionnaire on safe use of antibiotics, and patterns of self-prescribed antibiotic use. Results: 41 % of the study group used self-prescribed antibiotics more than 6 times in the previous 6 months and 100 % of them used them to treat fever and sore throat, followed by 76 % for vomiting and diarrhea. There were significant improvements in participants' knowledge, attitudes towards self-prescribed antibiotics, and safe use of antibiotics after implementing the nursing intervention. Conclusion: The nursing-based intervention was successful in attaining its objectives in improving the total knowledge, attitudes and practices of the studied group. Recommendation: Health education about appropriate antibiotic use should be approved as a part of the preventive services obtained for the mothers.

Item Description

2214-1391
10.1016/j.ijans.2023.100644