Team:XJTLU-CHINA/HP/Gold Integrated
HP Gold
Activity: Questionnaire Survey
In China, overuse of antibiotics is a severe problem. The alarming data shows that China has become one of the world’s top antibiotics consuming countries, with an annual per-capita consumption of antibiotics at 138 grams, or 10 times that of an average American (The Nation, 2013). The overuse of antibiotics is not only driven by physicians, but also by patients themselves. Patients frequently ask for prescribing antibiotics for some common conditions, for example, diarrhea, and sometimes even fall out with their physicians over the use of antibiotics. Patients who like to self-medicate purchase inappropriate antibiotics over the counter in pharmacies easily.
Therefore, with an aim to figure out patients’ perception of medical treatment and to improve our project design by making it more applicable so that it can handle real life problems, we conducted a public survey to better understand how bacterial enteritis are treated in daily life as well as the current situations of antibiotic overuse.
150 people had participated in the public survey, and their age ranges from 16 to 50 and the gender of the participants is relatively equal, making the statistical data relatively effective and reliable. According to the survey (Figure 1), only 25% of the patients with serious diarrhea caused by Staphylococcus aureus infection choose to go to hospital while the others just take some medicine by themselves.
