Socio-economic factors, cultural values, national personality and antibiotics use: A cross-cultural study among European countries
dc.contributor.author | Gaygisiz, Ummugulsum | |
dc.contributor.author | Lajunen, Timo Juhani | |
dc.contributor.author | Gaygisiz, Esma | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-22T06:41:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-08-22T06:41:45Z | |
dc.date.created | 2018-01-05T11:31:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Infection and Public Health. 2017, 10 (6), 755-760. | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.issn | 1876-0341 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2558763 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | nb_NO |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.title | Socio-economic factors, cultural values, national personality and antibiotics use: A cross-cultural study among European countries | nb_NO |
dc.type | Journal article | nb_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | nb_NO |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | nb_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 755-760 | nb_NO |
dc.source.volume | 10 | nb_NO |
dc.source.journal | Journal of Infection and Public Health | nb_NO |
dc.source.issue | 6 | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jiph.2016.11.011 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1536505 | |
dc.description.localcode | © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Limited. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). | nb_NO |
cristin.unitcode | 194,67,40,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Institutt for psykologi | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 |
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