Knowledge and Attitudes regarding Antibiotic Use and Resistance among Nursing and Dentistry Students in Babylon University/Iraq

The drugs that are specifically used to prevent or treat bacterial diseases and kill or destroy pathogenic bacteria, important note antibiotics do not kill viruses such as influenza, you should follow the guidelines in other words complete the entire period even if you feel better. A descriptive cross-sectional study aimed at assess the nursing and dentistry regarding knowledge and attitudes related to antibiotic use and resistance. As well as the relationship between students their knowledge and attitudes in relation to their demographic data. Purposive sample of (150) subject collected by a self-administrative and constructed questionnaire. Through the used descriptive approach statistical to analysis the distribution of study characteristics that includes, frequencies, percentages, mean of scores, and standard divagation; and inferential statistical approach data to analysis that relationship between knowledge and attitudes with demographic data include Chi-squared test. It shown that most of students (80%) with a high knowledge and disagreed attitudes. As well as, demographic data insignificant with students’ knowledge. In addition, the course and years of study had been significant with students attitudes at p-value <0.05.