Outpatients’ Attendants Knowledge Regarding Antibiotics Use and Antibiotics Resistance in Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf City Health Institutions

Antibiotics are important drugs that affect bacteria either kill or stop the growth of bacteria; appearance of the so called antibiotics resistance threatens its effectiveness on the therapeutic level. The level of knowledge regarding the antibiotics use and resistance of people provides them adequate protection against the risk of resistance whenever the assessment is good. The importance of the subject in Iraq invited us to choose this subject, which affects the lives of the human. This study focuses on assessing outpatients’ knowledge regarding antibiotics use and antibiotics resistance and the effect of some demographic variables and source of information on their knowledge. A descriptive design, survey study was carried out in al-Najaf City hospitals for the period from September 24^th, 2018 to May 1^st, 2019, nonprobability sampling technique convenience sample of 451respondants. Questionnaire consists of socio-demographic information, and 34 questions for the knowledge of use, and resistance. The overall knowledge of outpatients’ knowledge was fair and affected by age, gender, educational level, occupational status, and residency of parcticipants.