Knowledge and Practices about Compliance with Antibiotic therapy in outpatient patients of Huancayo Public Hospitals

Abstract

The therapeutic fulfillment is the behavior of a person in relation his drug therapy, in this case to antibiotic therapy, which indicated the prescriber, non-fulfillment is one of the main cause of treatment failure. Antibiotics are invaluable resources for their almost immediate health effects to the patient recovering from infections.

The case-study objectives were, determining the relation between knowledge and practices on fulfillment of antibiotic therapy for the ambulatory patients of public hospitals of Huancayo - 2015, identifying knowledge and the practices on fulfillment of antibiotic therapy, with the aim of enlarging the information on the degree of knowledge and practices that can serve to develop interventions with regard to this matter.

The research has a quantitative approach; no experimental design, descriptive, correlative level, bivariate analytic. Also it was performed bivariate statistical analysis; descriptive, with frequencies, average ones and Pearson’s correlation, Chi square, also the inferential statistical analysis was performed using the Student t-test, Kendall's tau(b), Spearman's rho.

It is concluded, confirming the general hypothesis that exists a direct and significant relationship between knowledge and practices on fulfillment of antibiotic therapy. At the same time, it is demonstrated that the knowledge and practices on fulfillment with antibiotic therapy, are deficient. These deficiencies lead to thinking about contributions, such as intervention strategies, dissemination, aimed at health professionals, education professionals, health professions students and the community in general.