Attitudes and perceptions regarding antimicrobial use and resistance among medical students in Central China

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Table 2 Resources used by medical students to learn about antimicrobial use and resistance, percentage reporting resource used sometimes/often

Resource	Sometimes/often (%)	P value^b
Resource	N = 605	P value^b
Textbooks or study guides	80.2	0.012^a
Peers (other students)	57.7	0.016^a
Wikipedia	52.1	0.001^a
iPhone/smartphone applications	50.5	0.489
Non-ID physicians	38.0	0.672
Infectious diseases specialists	27.0	0.322
Hospital pharmacists	22.1	0.031^a
Medical journals	19.7	<0.001^a
Other guidelines by professional organizations	17.3	0.726
Pharmaceutical representatives	13.6	0.241
Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide	11.5	0.626
Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines	10.6	0.922
Sanford guide	8.6	0.206

^aP < 0.05 refers to statistical differences in the percentages of different teaching hospitals
^bχ² test