Antibiotic use in communities: Assessing knowledge, perceptions and practice in Kenya

Prevalence of knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding antimicrobial resistance in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…This systematic review and meta-analysis included 39 (Thriemer et al, 2013;Abera et al, 2014;Pereko et al, 2015;Simba et al, 2016;Asante et al, 2017;Farley, 2017;Genga et al, 2017;Tafa et al, 2017;El Sherbiny et al, 2018;Seid and Hussein, 2018;Mate et al, 2019;Sunusi et al, 2019;Fetensa et al, 2020;Gemeda et al, 2020;Kabba et al, 2020;Mengesha et al, 2020;Nisabwe et al, 2020;Sindato et al, 2020;Wesangula et al, 2020;Zulu et al, 2020;Aworh et al, 2021;Babatola et al, 2021;Chukwu et al, 2021;Gebeyehu et al, 2021;Geta and Kibret, 2021;Mostafa et al, 2021;Ogoina et al, 2021;Russom et al, 2021;Adegbite et al, 2022;Belachew et al, 2022;Dejene et al, 2022;Kanyike et al, 2022;Mudenda et al, 2022;Paye and McClain, 2022;Tembo et al, 2022;Abubakar and Sárváry, 2023;Davwar et al, 2023;Maarouf et al, 2023;Otieku et al, 2023) published studies involving 18,769 study subjects. The review included primary studies with a remarkably varied sample size, ranging from just 47 (Adegbite et al, 2022) to 2,477…”

“…Of the included studies, 33 were cross-sectional (Thriemer et al, 2013;Abera et al, 2014;Pereko et al, 2015;Simba et al, 2016;Asante et al, 2017;Farley, 2017;Genga et al, 2017;Tafa et al, 2017;El Sherbiny et al, 2018;Seid and Hussein, 2018;Mate et al, 2019;Fetensa et al, 2020;Gemeda et al, 2020;Mengesha et al, 2020;Nisabwe et al, 2020;Sindato et al, 2020;Zulu et al, 2020;Aworh et al, 2021;Babatola et al, 2021;Chukwu et al, 2021;Gebeyehu et al, 2021;Geta and Kibret, 2021;Mostafa et al, 2021; FIGURE 1 PRISMA flow diagram explaining selection of primary studies in Africa. 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1345145 Frontiers in Microbiology 05 frontiersin.org Ogoina et al, 2021;Russom et al, 2021;Adegbite et al, 2022;Dejene et al, 2022;Kanyike et al, 2022;Mudenda et al, 2022;Paye and McClain, 2022;Abubakar and Sárváry, 2023;Davwar et al, 2023;Maarouf et al, 2023), while six studies followed a cohort study design (Sunusi et al, 2019;Kabba et al, 2020;Wesangula et al, 2020;Belachew et al, 2022;Tembo et al, 2022;O...…”

“…10.3389/fmicb.2024.1345145 Frontiers in Microbiology 05 frontiersin.org Ogoina et al, 2021;Russom et al, 2021;Adegbite et al, 2022;Dejene et al, 2022;Kanyike et al, 2022;Mudenda et al, 2022;Paye and McClain, 2022;Abubakar and Sárváry, 2023;Davwar et al, 2023;Maarouf et al, 2023), while six studies followed a cohort study design (Sunusi et al, 2019;Kabba et al, 2020;Wesangula et al, 2020;Belachew et al, 2022;Tembo et al, 2022;Otieku et al, 2023). The study participants for the primary studies were selected by the author from various groups including health workers (Abera et al, 2014;Asante et al, 2017;Genga et al, 2017;Tafa et al, 2017;Kabba et al, 2020;Babatola et al, 2021;Chukwu et al, 2021;Ogoina et al, 2021;Adegbite et al, 2022;Kanyike et al, 2022;Mudenda et al, 2022;Paye and McClain, 2022;Tembo et al, 2022;Abubakar and Sárváry, 2023;Davwar et al, 2023), patients (Farley, 2017;El Sherbiny et al, 2018;Geta and Kibret, 2021;Otieku et al, 2023), Tertiary school students (Thriemer et al, 2013;Seid and Hussein, 2018;Sunusi et al, 2019;Fetensa et al, 2020;Nisabwe et al, 2020;…”

“…The study participants for the primary studies were selected by the author from various groups including health workers (Abera et al, 2014;Asante et al, 2017;Genga et al, 2017;Tafa et al, 2017;Kabba et al, 2020;Babatola et al, 2021;Chukwu et al, 2021;Ogoina et al, 2021;Adegbite et al, 2022;Kanyike et al, 2022;Mudenda et al, 2022;Paye and McClain, 2022;Tembo et al, 2022;Abubakar and Sárváry, 2023;Davwar et al, 2023), patients (Farley, 2017;El Sherbiny et al, 2018;Geta and Kibret, 2021;Otieku et al, 2023), Tertiary school students (Thriemer et al, 2013;Seid and Hussein, 2018;Sunusi et al, 2019;Fetensa et al, 2020;Nisabwe et al, 2020;Zulu et al, 2020;Mostafa et al, 2021;Maarouf et al, 2023), community members or the general public (Pereko et al, 2015;Simba et al, 2016;Mate et al, 2019;Mengesha et al, 2020;Sindato et al, 2020;Wesangula et al, 2020;Russom et al, 2021;Belachew et al, 2022;Dejene et al, 2022), and livestock farmers (Farley, 2017;Gebeyehu et al, 2021;Geta and Kibret, 2021;Otieku et al, 2023). Furthermore, The majority of the primary studies included in this review were research reports from East Africa…”