Your privacy, your choice

We use essential cookies to make sure the site can function. We also use optional cookies for advertising, personalisation of content, usage analysis, and social media.

By accepting optional cookies, you consent to the processing of your personal data - including transfers to third parties. Some third parties are outside of the European Economic Area, with varying standards of data protection.

See our privacy policy for more information on the use of your personal data.

for further information and to change your choices.

Skip to main content

Table 3 Approval and revisit behavior of patients who demand antibiotics for common cold

From: Patients’ acceptance of placebo antibiotics in Japan: a prescription for antimicrobial resistance

(a) Approval of ethical placebos

    

Demands antibiotics for common cold

Active approval

Passive approval

Refusal

p value

Yes/relatively, yes

233

67.7%

82

23.8%

29

8.4%

n.s

No/relatively, no

313

67.7%

84

18.2%

65

14.1%

Do not know

122

68.5%

37

20.8%

19

10.7%

(b) Revisit behavior of patients

Demands antibiotics for common cold

Continue visiting

Change, if possible

Never revisit

p value

Yes/relatively, yes

248

71.7%

90

26.0%

8

2.3%

n.s

No/relatively, no

336

72.4%

108

23.3%

20

4.3%

Do not know

130

74.3%

35

20.0%

10

5.7%

  1. Chi-squared test
  2. n.s. not significant