DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2015.v03i03.037

Pages: 1217-1219

A cross-sectional study involved 262 parents with their children affected with URTI was surveyed between March 2014 to December 2014 in a multicenter hospital, Kirumampakkam, Puducherry. The research was to assess the parental knowledge, attitudes and practice on antibiotic use for childhood upper respiratory tract infection. The results conclude that 43% parents believed that weather was the main cause of acute URTI, 26% was due to intake of chilled food & 22% was by germs. In the treatment therapy 33 % parents believed that antibiotics were helpful to treat URTI, 30% antibiotics were unnecessary and 23 % left it to physician’s discretion. The study showed that parents have inadequate knowledge, negative attitude and poor practice on antibiotic use foracute URTI in children. Improved parental education may reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescription and antimicrobial resistance in the community.