Knowledge and use of antibiotics in six ethnic groups: the HELIUS study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The increase of antimicrobial resistance, mainly due to increased antibiotic use, is worrying. Preliminary evidence suggests that antibiotic use differs across ethnic groups in the Netherlands, with higher use in people of non-Dutch origin. We aimed to determine whether appropriate knowledge and use of antibiotics differ by ethnicity and whether knowledge on antibiotics is associated with antibiotic use.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional study analyzing baseline data (2011-2015) from a population-based cohort (HELIUS study), which were linked to data from a health insurance register. We included 21,617 HELIUS participants of South-Asian Surinamese, African-Surinamese, Turkish, Moroccan, Ghanaian, and Dutch origin. Fifteen thousand seven participants had avail

SUBMITTER: Schuts EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6898914 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature