Awareness about rationale use of antibiotics among first year mbbs students

Introduction: It is often tempting to stop taking an antibiotic as soon as one starts feeling better. Due to the lack of awareness about the effects of doing so, more and more people are not only taking antibiotics as per their convenience but also unnecessarily.
Aims & Objectives:
• To assess the level of awareness about the rationale use of antibiotics in first year MBBS students.
• To assess change in their attitude and knowledge about rationale use of antibiotics after presentation.
Material & Methods:The study was quasi experimental study which was done on 150 MBBS 1styear students. The type of sampling technique used was purposive sampling. Statistical tool applied is p value and chi square test.
Conclusion: In pre-test according to the data analysis awareness about rationale use antibiotic among the students was 45.28% and after intervention and data collection the awareness about rationale use antibiotic among the students rose to 76.8%. The overall increase in knowledge and attitude regarding rationale use of antibiotics that is 31.52% (target was to achieve compliance of 30%).