Ankara halkinin kendi kendine antibiyotik kullanimi hakkindaki bilgi ve tutumlarinin değerlendirilmesi

Objective: It's aimed to evaluate the public knowledge and attitude regarding self medication with antibiotics and it's influencing factors in Ankara. Method: A questionairre about self medication with antibiotics had been applied to the patients and patients' relatives admitted to Emergency Service of Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital between 01/01/2014-01/02/2014. Participants' demographic information, educational status and their knowledge about self medication with antibiotics were recorded. SPSS 15.0 program was used for statistical analysis. Chi square test was used for comparing groups and p<0.05 was accepted as statisticaly significant. Results: Three hundred twenty-two volunteers aged between 18-86 years participated in the study. It was found that 64.3% of the participants were using self medication with antibiotics. The comon cold and high fever were the leading causes of self medication with antibiotics. 64% of the participants were noted that they demand a prescription for antibiotics from the doctor when they attend any reason. Also 64.9% of the participants this stated that they were keeping antibiotics at home and 87% of them could buy antibiotics without prescription. While the 83.9% of the participants were thinking that unnecessary antibiotics can be harmful only 21.7% of them were received education about unnecessary use of antibiotics. While there was no corelation between the educational status of the participants and the knowledge and attitudes of the participants, self medication with antibiotics was significantly lower in the group that received education about unnecessary use of antibiotics. Conclusion: Unnecessary use of antibiotics was shown to be reduced with education about this issue by conducted studies. Activities for public and doctors are organized at special days like European Antibiotic Awareness Day, World Health Day for reducing the unnecessary use of antibiotics in our country. We think that an increase in these types of campaigns and activities may reduce the unnecessary use of antibiotics