ArticleAnnals of family medicine
A community intervention to decrease antibiotics used for self-medication among Latino adults.
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- A visual affective analysis of mass media interventions to increase antimicrobial stewardship amongst the public.British journal of health psychology · 2019Pooled it
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- Epidemiology of Antibiotic Use and Drivers of Cross-Border Procurement in a Mexican American Border Community.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Development and randomized controlled trial of an animated film aimed at reducing behaviours for acquiring antibiotics.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2021Article
- Community-based antibiotic access and use in six low-income and middle-income countries: a mixed-method approach.The Lancet. Global health · 2021Article
- What are the 'active ingredients' of interventions targeting the public's engagement with antimicrobial resistance and how might they work?British journal of health psychology · 2018Review
- Determinants of Self-Medication With Antibiotics in European and Anglo-Saxon Countries: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Frontiers in public health · 2018Article
- Clinical Population Medicine: Integrating Clinical Medicine and Population Health in Practice.Annals of family medicine · 2017Article
- Antimicrobial Stewardship: The Effectiveness of Educational Interventions to Change Risk-Related Behaviours in the General Population: A Systematic Review.Rand health quarterly · 2016Article
- Self-Medication Practices among a Sample of Latino Migrant Workers in South Florida.Frontiers in public health · 2014Article
- Perceptions in the community about the use of antibiotics without a prescription: Exploring ideas behind this practice.Pharmacy practiceArticle
- Preferences based interventions to address the use of antibiotics without prescription: A discrete choice experiment.Pharmacy practiceArticle
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Abstract
purposeRecent evidence in Latino communities indicates substantial self-medication with antibiotics obtained without a prescription (WORx). We implemented and evaluated a culturally sensitive educational intervention to decrease antibiotic self-medication.
methodsWe conducted a community-based intervention with preintervention and postintervention measures in the intervention community (Charleston, South Carolina) as well as a postintervention measure in a control community (Greenville, South Carolina) 200 miles away. The 9-month culturally sensitive intervention included multiple media sources (pamphlets, radio, newspapers). We evaluated the use of antibiotics WORx in the United States, as well as the likelihood of importing antibiotics, by surveying Latino adults in the intervention (n = 250) and in the control community (n = 250).
resultsMost adults in the intervention community (69%) and the control community (60%) reported some exposure to messages about the inappropriate use of antibiotics, and 25.9% in the intervention community and 8.6% in the control community reported seeing our patient education pamphlets. A substantial proportion of Latino adults in both the intervention (31%) and control communities (20%) have obtained antibiotics WORx in the United States. In multivariate analyses, exposure to an educational message was not a significant predictor of having acquired antibiotics WORx in the United States in past 12 months. The primary predictor of respondents' having acquired antibiotics WORx in the United States was whether they had bought antibiotics WORx outside the United States.
conclusionsNovel approaches are needed to decrease the use of antibiotics WORx in Latino communities, as focusing only on education may not be sufficient to change behaviors common in their home countries.
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