Antibiotic stewardship knowledge and belief differences among healthcare professionals in hospitals: A survey study

Herawati, Fauna and Jaelani, Abdul Kadir and Wijono, Heru and Rahem, Abdul and Setiasih, Setiasih and Yulia, Rika and Andrajati, Retnosari and Soemantri, Diantha (2021) Antibiotic stewardship knowledge and belief differences among healthcare professionals in hospitals: A survey study. Heliyon, 7 (6). e07377. ISSN 2405-8440

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Abstract

Background:Collaborative practice in healthcare has been recommended to improve the quality of antimicrobialstewardship interventions, a behavioral change in antimicrobial use. Insufficient knowledge regarding antibioticresistance, the fear of complications from infections, and how providers perceive antibiotic use and resistance arelikely to influence prescribing behavior. This study's objective was to identify the knowledge and belief healthcareprofessionals' differences about antibiotic stewardship.Methods:This cross-sectional survey study of three hospitals in the East Java province, Indonesia utilized a 43-item questionnaire to assess antimicrobial stewardship knowledge and belief. There were 12 knowledge ques-tions (total possible score: 12) and 31 belief questions (total possible score: 155). The Kuder Richardson 20 (KR-20) and Cronbach alpha values of the questionnaire were 0.54 and 0.92, respectively.Results:Out of the 257 respondents, 19% (48/257) had a low scores of knowledge, and 39% (101/257) had lowscores on belief about antibiotic stewardship (101/257). Most midwives had a low scores on knowledge (25/61)and low scores on belief (46/61). Respondents with high scores on belief were 17% (10/59) physicians, 15% (4/27) pharmacists, 8% (5/65) nurses, and 3% (2/61) midwives.Conclusion:Among healthcare professionals, knowledge and belief differences concerning antibiotic stewardshipvary widely. These differences will affect their capability, behavior, and contribution to the healthcare teamcollaboration and performance. Further studies are needed to evaluate the correlation between the level of inter-professional collaboration and the quality of the antibiotic stewardship implementation.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Antibiotic stewardship; Knowledge; Belief
Subjects:	R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica
Divisions:	Faculty of Pharmacy > Department of Pharmacy
Depositing User:	Ester Sri W. 196039
Date Deposited:	02 Jul 2021 07:57
Last Modified:	30 Jul 2021 10:56
URI:	http://repository.ubaya.ac.id/id/eprint/39775

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