Factors Effecting Antibiotic Use Behavior of Patients with Upper Respiration Infection at Subdistrict Health Promoting Hospitals in Lamplaimat District, Buriram Province ปัจจัยที่มีผลต่อพฤติกรรมการใช้ยาปฏิชีวนะรักษาโรคติดเชื้อทางเดินหายใจส่วนบนของผู้รับบริการที่โรงพยาบาลส่งเสริมสุขภาพตำบล อำเภอลำปลายมาศ จังหวัดบุรีรัมย์

Abstract

Antibiotics are important for treating of many infectious states or diseases however misuse of antibiotic causes adverse side effects and antibiotic resistance. This cross-sectional analytical research aimed to study (1) factors related to antibiotic use behavior (2) antibiotic use behavior (3) relationships amongst predisposing factors, enabling factors, and reinforcing factors with effecting antibiotic use behavior of patients with upper respiration infection (PtURI) at subdistrict health promoting hospitals in Lamplaimat district, Buriram province. The samples were 117 of PtURI. The samples were selected by stratified random sampling. Data was collected by questionnaire in April 2020. Data was analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation, skewness, maximum, minimum, Pearson correlation, and multiple regression analysis with the Enter method.

The study result was found that the most samples were female (70.1%), aged 40-49 years old. (26.5%) completed education in elementary school (41.9%) and worked as farmers (51.3%) In addition, they had a history of using antibiotics in the past three months (58.1%) had knowledge about antibiotic in moderate level (63.2%) had attitude about antibiotic in moderate level (60.7%) had very good rating of enabling factors (82.9%) and good rating of reinforcing factors (69.2%). Furthermore, most participants had very good antibiotic use behavior (77.8%). The results of the analysis of factors effecting antibiotic use behavior found that all 9 independent variables were able to explain the behavior by 30.4%. There were 2 variables effecting antibiotic use behavior as statistically significant (p <0.05) such as attitudes and enabling factors.

In summary, having good attitude in antibiotic use and received information about antibiotic usage from health care staff may promote rational use of antibiotic.