Comparison of adults’ and children’s antibiotic sources and use during acute illnesses and accidents
| Mae Fah Luang and Chiang Rai villages (first survey round) | All three workshop villages | Rural Chiang Rai province | |||||||
| Adult | Child | P value | Adult | Child | P value | Adult | Child | P value | |
| All illness episodes | |||||||||
| Number | 229 | 68 | 697 | 168 | 696 | 156 | |||
| % received antibiotics | 12.2% | 13.2% | 0.825 | 14.3% | 16.7% | 0.447 | 19.2% | 24.5% | 0.321 |
| All antibiotic use episodes | |||||||||
| Number | 28 | 9 | 100 | 28 | 125 | 31 | |||
| % of antibiotic use episodes received from formal sources | 71.4% | 100.0% | 0.070 | 75.0% | 92.9% | 0.041 | 83.6% | 100.0% | 0.083 |
| % of antibiotic use episodes received from informal sources | 28.6% | 0.0% | 0.070 | 26.0% | 10.7% | 0.088 | 18.3% | 6.1% | 0.235 |
| % of illness episodes with at least one instance of unfinished antibiotics | 42.9% | 44.4% | 0.933 | 40.0% | 39.3% | 0.946 | 36.5% | 48.6% | 0.338 |
| % of episodes with at least one instance of strict adherence to antibiotic instructions | 64.3% | 77.8% | 0.452 | 67.0% | 67.9% | 0.932 | 72.2% | 70.8% | 0.908 |
Data on illness episode level. Multiple illness episodes per respondent possible. Provincial-level results are population weighted using census data. P values calculated using Pearson’s χ2 test. ‘Child’ refers to illness episodes of anyone below 18 years of age; adults would report the illness episodes of ‘children’ under their supervision.
Source, Authors; derived from survey data.