Whether participants were in favour, opposed, or neither in favour or opposed to use of delayed antibiotics for chest, urine ear and throat infections, by their awareness of the term or practice of delayed antibiotic prescription
| Fully aware of term and practice (a) n=274 | Fully aware of term OR practice but NOT both (b) n=167 | NOT aware of term or practice (c) n=1181 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infection | Chest | Urine | Ear | Throat | Chest | Urine | Ear | Throat | Chest | Urine | Ear | Throat |
| % In favour or strongly in favour | 54%bc (b) p=0.015 (c) p=0.000 | 51%c p=0.000 | 50%c p=0.000 | 49%c p=0.000 | 42% | 43% | 47%c p=0.002 | 42%c p=0.021 | 36% | 35% | 34% | 32% |
| % Opposed or Strongly opposed | 27% | 25% | 26% | 27% | 25% | 18% | 21% | 24% | 31% | 30%b p=0.003 | 31%b p=0.011 | 32%b p=0.045 |
| % Neither in favour or opposed | 19% | 23% | 23% | 24% | 32%a p=0.003 | 37%a p=0.002 | 32% | 33%a p=0.044 | 28%a p=0.002 | 30%a p=0.017 | 31%a p=0.020 | 31%a p=0.021 |
| % | - | 1% | - | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 5%a p=0.002 | 5%a p=0.005 | 4%a p=0.003 | 5%a p=0.005 |