Where is your current place of medical practice? | Categorical (3 levels) |
How long ago did you graduate from medical school? | Categorical (3 levels) |
Where did you attend medical school? | Binary |
What is your highest medical qualification? | Categorical (4 levels) |
What percentage of AURI are caused by viruses? | Scale (1–5) |
What is the proportion of patients with AURI to whom you prescribe antibiotics? | Scale (1–5) |
Q1) Symptoms of AURI cannot be relieved faster by antibiotics | Scale (1–5) |
Q2) I am less comfortable giving antibiotics to patients with AURI than giving them | Scale (1–5) |
Q3) I think antibiotics are overprescribed in primary care | Scale (1–5) |
Q4) I do not find it difficult to determine whether antibiotics are needed for my patients with AURI | Scale (1–5) |
Q5) I do not prescribe antibiotics if I don’t think the patient needs them because I am not worried that I will miss a bacterial infection | Scale (1–5) |
Q6) I do not prescribe antibiotics if I don’t think the patient needs them because the risk of giving antibiotics is not low | Scale (1–5) |
Q7) I do not prescribe antibiotics if I don’t think the patient needs them because I am not worried about the risk of bacterial complications from a viral AURI | Scale (1–5) |
Q8) I am more likely to give antibiotics to patients with AURI if they are at the extremes of age (that is, in the paediatric or geriatric age groups) | Scale (1–5) |
Q9) I am more likely to give antibiotics if the patient has comorbidities (for example, diabetes mellitus, COPD, chronic renal disease) | Scale (1–5) |
Q10) I am more likely to give antibiotics if the patient returns for a repeat visit for the same respiratory condition | Scale (1–5) |
Q11) I am more likely to give antibiotics if the patient has more than 3 days of respiratory symptoms | Scale (1–5) |
Q12) If I do not prescribe antibiotics to my patients with AURI, they will usually ask for them | Scale (1–4) |
Q13) I prescribe antibiotics even if I don’t think the patient needs them because I think the patient expects it | Scale (1–5) |
Q14) I prescribe antibiotics even if I don’t think the patient needs them because otherwise the patient will then seek medical attention elsewhere | Scale (1–5) |
Q15) If I don’t think my patient needs antibiotics, I will not prescribe them | Scale (1–4) |
Q16) If a patient who does not need antibiotics asks for them, I will explain to them why I think they do not need them | Scale (1–4) |
Q17) I am able to convince my patients who do not need antibiotics that they will not benefit from them | Scale (1–4) |
Q18) I think I prescribe antibiotics appropriately | Scale (1–5) |
Q19) To diagnose pneumonia, in addition to physical examination I routinely do further investigations (for example, FBC, CXR) | Scale (1–5) |
Q20) If I am uncertain whether an AURI is of viral or bacterial origin, I depend on diagnostic tests (for example, FBC, CRP, throat culture) | Scale (1–5) |
Q21) The turnaround time for diagnostic tests for AURI is not too long to be useful in my practice | Scale (1–5) |
Q22) I hope the Ministry of Health will publish a clinical practice guideline on the use of antibiotics in AURI | Scale (1–5) |
Q23) A national guideline would change my antibiotic prescribing pattern | Scale (1–5) |
Q24) I would be keen to take part in an education programme aimed at reducing antibiotic prescription in primary care | Scale (1–5) |