Attitudinal classification of patients receiving antibiotic treatment for mild respiratory tract infections

Non-compliance with antibiotic therapy for acute community infections: a global survey

“…Two segmentation analyses were performed using factor and cluster analysis (SPSS 10.0 Analytical Data Package; SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). The first dealt with attitudes to the doctor emulating the methodology used in previous research [21] and using all five factors from this part of the factor analysis. The second examined the psychographic profile of the respondents, using three factors from the antibiotic usage analysis and two factors from the attitude to doctors analysis, along with standardised scores for the number of days and number of daily antibiotic doses a respondent was asked to complete and a recognised utility measure of health severity (EQ-5D) [22].…”

“…It has been shown previously [21] that the patient's perception of their doctor can impact their attitude to antibiotic therapy, including compliance. In a review of outpatient management of infectious diseases [13], the authors identified certain physician attitudes and behaviours associated with patient compliance.…”

“…'Ignored' patient types have a poor personal interaction with their doctor, often feeling that he/she is condescending or rude and does not believe what they say, feeling that they have to exaggerate their problem to get what they want. 'Critical' patient types doubt their doctor's competence and experience; they are not willing to see their doctor as an 'expert' [21].…”

“…Previous patient surveys have examined compliance as part of patients' attitudes to antibiotic therapy [17,20,21]. The aim of this paper was to determine those factors that influence non-compliance and the psychographic profile of the non-compliant patient in 11 different countries from four continents.…”

A systematic review and meta-analysis of misuse of antibiotic therapies in the community

“…It was not possible to locate four articles, which were therefore excluded. Two articles that reported combined results from multinational telephone interviews were excluded to avoid duplication of data and to minimise the heterogeneity of compliance estimates between countries [14,15]. Following full-text review, 46 unique articles were identified that contained the required information for metaanalysis [4,.…”