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An Educational Intervention to Improve the Use of Antibiotics in Portuguese Health Professional

NCT02173509 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2300

Last updated 2023-08-18

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Summary

This is a cluster randomised controlled trial covering all general practitioners working in the National Health System (SNS) and all pharmacists working in community pharmacies in the area covered by the Health Region Administration of Center (ARS-C) . A specific educative intervention, designed from gaps detected in knowledge and attitudes with respect to antibiotics and resistance, will be carried out on the intervention group. The control group will not receive any specific intervention.

Hypotheses:

1. The attitudes and knowledge towards antibiotics generate habits of prescription by physicians
2. The attitudes and knowledge towards to antibiotics generate propensity to dispense antibiotics without prescription by pharmacists
3. The identification of the attitudes, knowledge and factors that generate habits of inadequate prescription will allow the design of specific educative interventions to improve the use of antibiotics
4. The identification of the attitudes, knowledge and factors that generate propensity to dispense antibiotics without prescription will allow the design of specific educative interventions to antibiotic use
5. The interventions designed from gaps detected in knowledge and attitudes with respect to antibiotics and resistance will improve the prescription and dispensation of antibiotics by physicians and pharmacists, respectively.
6. The intervention will collaborate in the control of the bacterial resistance.

Conditions

  • Antibiotics Misuse

Interventions

OTHER

Multidisciplinary and multifaceted educational intervention.

Outreach visits (40 minutes) which included a PowerPoint presentation and impress materials: poster; flyers; participation certificate and articles mentioned in the presentation. This outreach visit aimed to change the knowledge-attitudes previously identified in a previous study as being associated with poor prescribing of antibiotics in the case of physicians and propensity to dispense antibiotics without medical prescription in the case of pharmacists.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

    collaborator OTHER

  • Aveiro University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-05-31
Primary Completion
2013-10-31
Completion
2017-12-31

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