THE PREVALENCE OF ANTIBIOTICS MISUSE AMONG SENIOR MEDICAL STUDENT AT UMM AL-QURA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE, MAKKAH.
Amer Alboush
, Matooq Noah
, Mohammed Alfageah
, Jehad Albitar
, Mohmmed Alsharif MBBS
, Mahmoud Bardisi
, Hoda Kassab
and Nada Jamal Abdulqader.
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Misusing of antibiotics has been increasing in our society especially with easy access and the deregulations from the authority of selling antibiotics without medical prescriptions. With the misusing of the antibiotics, the resistance increased in our community and hospitals. Many reasons had led us to this problem other than the easy access to the antibiotics, lack of education from health caregiver, stop antibiotic when feeling better, using leftover antibiotics, using antibiotics in viral illness such as upper respiratory tract infection. The aim of this study is to evaluate the awareness of misusing antibiotics in the senior medical student at Umm Alqura University. This study is a cross-sectional study was done in march 2016 to October 2016, and a total number of 170 of senior medical student males and females participate in this study and it showed female were the higher percentage in using the antibiotics, 69% of abused drug in female was Augmenting.
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[Amer Alboush, Matooq Noah, Mohammed Alfageah, Jehad Albitar, Mohmmed Alsharif MBBS, Mahmoud Bardisi, Hoda Kassab and Nada Jamal Abdulqader. (2017); THE PREVALENCE OF ANTIBIOTICS MISUSE AMONG SENIOR MEDICAL STUDENT AT UMM AL-QURA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE, MAKKAH. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Feb). 429-432] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
