Socio-economic factors, cultural values, national personality and antibiotics use: A cross-cultural study among European countries

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2017-11-01

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Gaygisiz, Ummugulsum
Lajunen, Timo
Gaygısız Lajunen, Esma

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There are considerable cross-national differences in public attitudes towards antibiotics use, use of prescribed antibiotics, and self-medication with antibiotics even within Europe. This study was aimed at investigating the relationships between socio-economic factors, cultural values, national personality characteristics and the antibiotic use in Europe. Data included scores from 27 European countries (14 countries for personality analysis). Correlations between socio-economic variables (Gross National Income per capita, governance quality, life expectancy, mean years of schooling, number of physicians), Hofstede's cultural value dimensions (power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation, indulgence), national personality characteristic (extraversion, neuroticism, social desirability) and antibiotic use were calculated and three regression models were constructed. Governance quality (r=-.51), mean years of schooling (r=-.61), power distance (r=.59), masculinity (r=.53), and neuroticism (r=.73) correlated with antibiotic use. The highest amount of variance in antibiotic use was accounted by the cultural values (65%) followed by socio-economic factors (63%) and personality factors (55%). Results show that socio-economic factors, cultural values and national personality characteristics explain cross-national differences in antibiotic use in Europe. In particular, governance quality, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity and neuroticism were important factors explaining antibiotics use. The findings underline the importance of socio-economic and cultural context in health care and in planning public health interventions. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Limited.

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Antibiotic, Cultural values, Personality characteristics, Socio-economic factors

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/33184

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JOURNAL OF INFECTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2016.11.011

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U. Gaygisiz, T. Lajunen, and E. Gaygısız Lajunen, “Socio-economic factors, cultural values, national personality and antibiotics use: A cross-cultural study among European countries,” JOURNAL OF INFECTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH, pp. 755–760, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/33184.