Utilization of Antibiotics in Patients with Covid-19

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Antibiotic utilization reviews are important tool to employ in the assessment of health care practices. We aim to assess the prescription pattern of antibiotics among the covid-19 patients and influence of vaccination in pandemic era. OBJECTIVE The core objective of the study to evaluate the prescription pattern of antibiotics in participants with covid-19, to assess vaccination status among the study participants, to assess the treatment seeking behaviour of the participants and to assess the socio-demographic data of participants. METHODOLOGY: Overall, 505 subjects were matriculate in the study. The study was a prospective observational study conducted by the means of online survey provided in 3 language. RESULT(S) The participants were predominantly under the age group of 19-29 (45%) and females (53.5%) were outnumbered than males among the respondents. Among the participants (65.1%) were prescribed with antibiotics, majority of the patients were treated with the antibiotic azithromycin (43.8%). The vaccination status among the patients shows that 51.3 % were vaccinated, majority of them had first dose of vaccine (68%), and more were vaccinated with covishield 76.4%. Among the patients 57.9% were presented side effects. 15.4% was experienced with pain at the injection site. CONCLUSION(S) The study also reveals that antibiotics are beneficial for treating covid-19 patients. In this study, Azithromycin have been widely used and prescribed for treating the covid-19 patients. It can be concluded that azithromycin has the capability to fight against the novel corona virus being a life saver amidst the pandemic. Copyright © 2022, Anka Publishers. All rights reserved.