Special Eurobarometer 338: Antimicrobial resistance

The background of this Europe-wide effort to raise public awareness about the importance of the prudent use of antibiotics, the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers wanted to ascertain how knowledgeable Europeans are about antibiotics. This report is divided into three main parts, structured as follows: - We will focus first of all on the use of antibiotics by Europeans; this will enable us to ascertain how they obtained their antibiotics and why they took them. - We will then examine public knowledge and preconceptions about antibiotics, in order to identify what types of messages should be improved or repeated. - Finally, we will analyse the potential impact of antibiotic awareness campaigns on the knowledge and practices of Europeans in this area. #####The results by volumes are distributed as follows: * Volume A: Countries * Volume AA: Groups of countries * Volume A' (AP): Trends * Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries * Volume B: EU/socio-demographics * Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics * Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: [https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer](https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer)