Changing behaviour of health care professionals and the general public towards a more prudent use of anti-microbial agents

Objective

The aim of CHAMP is to promote the appropriate use of antibiotics by developing effective tools to change behaviour of health care professionals, patients in primary care, and the general public on the prescription and use of antibiotics. Effective interventions in this field should take into account cultural differences between countries and be based on knowledge of perceptions and behaviour of medical professionals, patients and the general public within the European Union.

Therefore the first stage of the project will explore current prevention and management of respiratory tract infections in European primary care and perception, expectations and illness behaviour of primary care patients with respiratory tract infections. Then an up-to-date inventory of both published and unpublished public campaigns and behavioural programs will be made and qualitative information from key-players and stake-holders in this field will be gathered. Cost-effectiveness of the different interventions used until now will be modelled. In addition, information will be gathered systematically on educational programs from medical schools on prevention and management of common respiratory tract infections. The information thus gathered will be analysed and priorities chosen.

Consensus will be aimed for among experts and stakeholders on tools to improve the behaviour of medical professionals and the public concerning prevention and management of infectious diseases and antibiotic use. In addition, standard procedures will be developed to measure the effects of educational activities, behavioural programs and public campaigns in this field. Finally, the implementation of the behavioural program that is thus developed will be tried out and evaluated in six GP networks in six different countries. This will be done in close collaboration with the GRACE project.

Fields of science

• medical and health sciences › health sciences › infectious diseases
• medical and health sciences › basic medicine › pharmacology and pharmacy › pharmaceutical drugs › antibiotics

Programme(s)

• FP6-POLICIES - Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• POLICIES-2.2 - Public health issues, including epidemiology contributing to disease prevention and responses to emerging rare and communicable diseases, allergies, procedures for secure blood and organ donations, non-animal test methods

Call for proposal

FP6-2005-SSP-5-A
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Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE UTRECHT

Address

Heidelberglaan 100
Utrecht
Netherlands

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Participants (11)

UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN

Belgium

Address

Prinsstraat 13
Antwerpen

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

United Kingdom

Address

University Rd
Southampton

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY

United Kingdom

Address

30-36 Newport Road
Cardiff

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THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

United Kingdom

Address

Edgbaston
Birmingham

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UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA

United Kingdom

Address

University Plain
Norwich

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MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ

Poland

Address

Aleja Kosciuszki 4
Lodz

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UTRECHT UNIVERSITY

Netherlands

Address

Heidelberglaan 8
Utrecht

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LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE

United Kingdom

Address

Keppel Street
London

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UNIVERSIDAD MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ DE ELCHE

Spain

Address

Avda. De La Universidad
Elche - Alicante

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UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO

Italy

Address

Via Festa Del Perdono 7
Milan

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UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE

Switzerland

Address

24, Rue Du Général-dufour
Geneva 4

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