Knowledge, beliefs and practices of DLSU-HSC students regarding the use of antibiotics for self-medication of common ailments

Date of Completion

2002

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Keywords

Self Medication, Anti-Bacterial Agents

Abstract

This study employed the descriptive design. The participants comprised of 160 students from different year levels of the College of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Medical Radiologic Technology and College of Physical Therapy of DLSU-HSC which were randomly selected. A formulated questionnaire was used for data gathering. The main statistical treatments used in this study were frequency distribution, mean, t-test and F-test. The following findings were drawn: 1.) The respondents’ profile showed that they were equally distributed comprising of 25% each from all colleges; 60 or 37% were from the second year level; 109 or 68% were females; 136 or 85% were Catholic, and 48 or 30% had an estimated monthly family income of ₱50,001 and above; 2.) The overall mean level of knowledge (4.03), beliefs (3.40) and practices (3.60) of students regarding the use of antibiotics for self-medication of common ailments were interpreted as a very good level of knowledge, beliefs and practices having an overall mean of 3.55; 2.) The mean level of knowledge, beliefs and practices of the respondents regarding the use of antibiotics for self-medication of common ailments when grouped according to gender and religion based on the computed t-ratio of 0.14 and 0.72 respective is less than the tabular t-value of 1.96 at 0.05 level of significance: thereby accepting the null hypothesis that there is no significant difference. Moreover in terms of year level and estimated monthly family income based on the computed F ratio of 1.91 and 2.08 is less than the tabular F ratio of 2.66 at 0.05 level of significance thereby accepting the null hypothesis that there is also no significant difference. However with regards to the course, the computed F ratio of 6.88 is greater than the tabular F-ratio of 2.43 at 0.05 level of significance using 4 and 155 degrees of freedom thereby rejecting the null hypothesis that there is no significant difference.

Comments

Call Number: TH NM 02 18

Location: Research Commons

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