Antibiotic use practices of pharmacy staff: a cross-sectional study in Saint Petersburg, the Russian Federation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://bmcpharmacoltoxicol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40360-017-0116-y" target="_blank" >http://bmcpharmacoltoxicol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40360-017-0116-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40360-017-0116-y" target="_blank" >10.1186/s40360-017-0116-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Antibiotic use practices of pharmacy staff: a cross-sectional study in Saint Petersburg, the Russian Federation

Original language description

Background: Non-prescription access to antimicrobials is common, and self-prescribing is increasingly popular in Russian society. The aim of this study was to assess the attitudes of community pharmacists regarding antibiotic use and self-medication. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study from September-December 2015 of community pharmacists in the Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad region, Russia. A self-administered questionnaire was used to assess antibiotic use and self-medication practices. The data were analysed using logistic regression and Pearson chi-squared tests. Results: Of the 316 pharmacists (77.07%) who completed the questionnaire, 230 (72.8%) self-medicated with antibiotics. Antibiotics were mostly used to self-treat upper (53.3%) and lower respiratory tract infections (19.3%), relying on their own knowledge (81.5%), previous treatment experience (49%) and patients&apos; prescriptions (17%). The most commonly used antibiotics were macrolides (33.2%). Characteristics such as age, education and experience were related to antibiotic use and self-medication. Conclusions: The study confirmed that self-prescription of antibiotics is a common practice amongst pharmacists in Saint Petersburg and also identified personal and professional characteristics of pharmacists strongly associated with self-medication.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30104 - Pharmacology and pharmacy

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

BMC pharmacology &amp; toxicology

ISSN

2050-6511

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

February

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000397893100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85013272376