Dentists' Awareness of Antibiotic Stewardship and Their Willingness to Support Its Implementation: A Cross-Sectional Survey in a Dental School

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI:10.1111/jep.70023

Arwa A. Banjar

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Abstract

Objectives

Antibiotic overuse is highly reported among dentists worldwide. An antibiotic stewardship programme has been shown to be effective for decreasing the number of unappropriated antibiotic prescriptions. The goal of this survey was to assess dentists' awareness of antibiotic stewardship and their willingness to implement changes accordingly.

Methods

A structured questionnaire was developed and distributed to dentists at a university hospital with different levels of experience. It included questions regarding antibiotic prescription habits, antibiotic stewardship knowledge and willingness to implement changes in such a programme.

Results

Overall, 256 dentists participated in the survey. Among them, 16.4% (95% confidence interval: 12.1%–21.5%) reported awareness regarding antibiotic stewardship. Awareness levels were higher among specialists (28.3%) and increased with experience. Most dentists in this study reported willingness to improve their antibiotic prescribing practices. The mean willingness score was 8.78 (standard deviation: 1.81).

Conclusions

Awareness of antibiotic stewardship was low among dentists with different levels of experience. However, dentists were willing to change their antibiotic prescription habits if policies were implemented as part of a stewardship programme at the school.

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牙医对抗生素管理的认识及其支持实施的意愿：一项牙科学校的横断面调查

目的：抗生素的过度使用在世界范围内的牙医中被高度报道。抗生素管理规划已被证明对减少不适当抗生素处方的数量是有效的。本调查的目的是评估牙医对抗生素管理的认识以及他们实施相应变革的意愿。方法对某大学附属医院不同经验水平的牙医进行问卷调查。调查的问题包括抗生素处方习惯、抗生素管理知识和对这类规划实施改革的意愿。结果共有256名牙医参与调查。其中，16.4%（95%置信区间：12.1%-21.5%）报告对抗生素管理有所了解。专家的意识水平较高（28.3%），并且随着经验的增加而提高。在这项研究中，大多数牙医都表示愿意改善他们的抗生素处方做法。平均意愿得分为8.78（标准差为1.81）。结论不同经验水平的牙医对抗生素管理的认知度较低。然而，如果政策作为学校管理计划的一部分实施，牙医们愿意改变他们的抗生素处方习惯。

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Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 医学-卫生保健

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4.80

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143

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3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.