Antibiotic Knowledge

Vendors often confused antibiotics with other drug classes by grouping medicines according to perceived effect or appearance. Knowledge of antibiotic dosages and therapeutic indications was consistently vague among vendors. Informal vendors had limited and imprecise knowledge of antibiotics. Antibiotic knowledge was measured with four true-or-false statements and converted into a score from 0 to 4. Higher knowledge scores were used as a continuous variable in regression analyses. Vendors' antibiotic recognition was based on experience and imitation rather than formal training.