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

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Table 3 Mean knowledge score for respondents who used the resources compared to respondents who do not use

Resource	Mean knowledge score		P value^b
	N = 605
	Used (%)	Not used (%)
Medical journals	35.3	32.3	0.125
Peers (other students)	35.0	32.8	0.390
Wikipedia	34.8	40.2	<0.001^a
Textbooks or study guides	34.7	33.9	0.558
iPhone/smartphone applications	34.3	33.7	0.519
Non-ID physicians	33.9	33.0	0.953
Pharmaceutical representatives	33.5	32.9	0.208
Hospital pharmacists	33.4	32.8	0.984
Sanford guide	33.1	33.2	0.664
Other guidelines by professional organizations	33.1	32.7	0.328
Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide	32.9	30.3	0.002^a
Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines	32.2	29.5	0.04^a
Infectious diseases specialists	31.0	29.2	0.001^a

ID infectious diseases
^aP < 0.05 refers to statistical differences in the overall mean scores of respondents who used or not used the resources
^bMann–Whitney U Test