Appropriate antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance: knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of medical students and their needs and preferences for learning

Table 2 Knowledge on therapy/practice in the use of antibiotics. Overview of the rate of correct answers to the knowledge questions in total and broken down into early and advanced semester students

	Correct answer of the students			p-value (early and advanced semesters)
	Total n = 356	Early semesters (1–5), n = 128	Advanced semesters (6+), n = 228	p-value (early and advanced semesters)
Question
The following antibiotic is considered the antibiotic of first choice for infections with Staphylococcus aureus;—correct answer: Flucloxacillin	203 (57%)	32 (25%)	171 (75%)	< 0.0001
Acute bronchitis that persists for more than one week is usually an indication of antibiotic therapy.—Not true!	209 (59%)	41 (32%)	168 (74%)	< 0.0001
Acute pyelonephritis in a young patient without concomitant diseases is a clear indication for antibiotic therapy.—True!	201 (56%)	39 (31%)	162 (71%)	< 0.0001
Antibiotic therapy longer than 7 days is usually not necessary in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia when there is clinical response.—True!^a	164 (46%)	28 (22%)	136 (60%)	< 0.0001

KAB survey, Germany 2019–2020
^aAt the time of the survey, the national guidelines for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults generally recommended a treatment duration of 7 days in the case of clinical response to the antibiotic therapy. Since 2021, there has been an updated guideline that recommends a treatment duration of 5 days for CAP if a response to the antibiotic therapy has already started [18]

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