A survey on prevalence, practice, knowledge and attitudes of self-medication among Bangladeshi parents’ with antibiotics to their children.

Abstract

A questioner based survey ‘‘on prevalence, practice, knowledge and attitudes of self-medication among Bangladeshi parents’ with antibiotics to their children” was conducted on parents of children in Dhaka city have required antibiotic in the last 6 months. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of self-medication tendency of children by parents bear recognizing antibiotic usage and resistance. The prevalence was very low.o2% and most parents preferred visiting the doctor or dispensary attendant to obtain the medication. Almost 67.2% parents through that their child’s health status was moderate to fairly poor. Antibiotic that is selfmedicated highest tendency was Tetracycline although most parents preferred to the professional help upon child’s diseases condition. When asked about antibiotic resistance, most parents had no idea about what the term meant of how it is recalled to misuse or discontinuation of antibiotic therapy. To stop the abuse of antibiotic in Bangladesh and development of resistance antibiotic prescription should be closely monitored awareness should be spread about the consequence of misuse of antibiotic.