NCT06944158

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Study

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Among Healthcare Workers in Syria: Multicenter Cross Sectional Study

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 500 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Aleppo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 25 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to investigate the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of the antibiotic resistance and prudent antibiotic use among healthcare workers in Syria

Detailed description

This will be a multicenter cross-sectional study across the country. The online questionnaire will be conducted in different governorates and published online through social media. An online link to the web-based questionnaire will be developed using Google forms; it was self-designed based on questions used in previous similar studies\[1\]-\[5\].The questionnaire will take about 5-10 minutes to be completed by each participant. The questionnaire consists of eight sections. All participants fulfilling the inclusion criteria will be invited to participate. Snowball sampling will select the study participants with a confidence level of 95% and a margin of error of 5%. The lower limit of participants should be included is 200 healthcare workers. The questionnaire will be pre-tested on a small sample of participants to confirm the practicability and clarity of questions to check the content. Observations of the pilot study will not be included in the final analysis. Responses will be downloaded from Google form as an excel sheet, and data will be analyzed using SPSS version 28.

Conditions

• Anti-Microbial Resistance

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-11-01
• Primary completion: 2025-06-01
• Completion: 2025-06-01
• First posted: 2025-04-25
• Last updated: 2025-04-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Syria