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Patient related determinants
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Illness perception/behaviour and health-seeking behaviour
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Attitudes, knowledge and beliefs towards URTI symptoms (serious or self-limiting, belief in the healing power of the body, fear of complications), initial coping strategies, threshold for consulting a GP, in particular for self-limiting diseases.
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[18, 21, 24, 25, 27]
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Individual experience
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Previous experience of similar episodes.
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[27]
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Antibiotic awareness
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Attitudes, knowledge, beliefs and perceptions towards antibiotics (their effectiveness in speeding recovery and preventing complications, their adverse effects, antibiotic resistance).
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[13, 19, 21, 23, 25–27]
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Drug perception
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Perception towards antibiotics and symptomatic medication: scepticism towards medications and fear of toxicity, or considered as accelerators of the healing process with fear of complications if no medicines were used.
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[24, 27]
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Labelling of diagnosis
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Perception of what is considered as a real symptom and use of labels.
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[27]
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Work ethos
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Behaviour towards work: continue working in spite of illness or stop working to let the body recover and avoid transmitting infection to others.
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[13, 27, 28]
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Practitioner perception
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Perception of their practitioner’s competence, trust in the practitioner.
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[12, 19, 20]
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Practitioner related determinants
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RTI management
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Attitudes towards RTI, management, including decision-making.
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[12, 24, 28]
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Initial training
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Orientation of initial medical training (hospital-centred or outpatient-centred).
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[28]
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Antibiotic awareness
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Attitudes towards and beliefs concerning antibiotics.
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[12, 24]
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Legal complaints
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Antibiotic prescription to avoid legal complaints.
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[28]
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Practice context
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Perceived patients’ expectations, patient education strategies, prescription patterns.
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[12, 28]
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