Antibiotics nonadherence and knowledge in a community with the world's leading prevalence of antibiotics resistance: implications for public health intervention.

Background: Community determinants of antibiotics nonadherence, an important contributor of antibiotics resistance, remained unclear.

Objectives: Our objective was to investigate whether deficient antibiotics knowledge could contribute to nonadherence in a community with high prevalence of antibiotics resistance.

Methods: We recruited 465 people by random sampling from 5 urban areas in Hong Kong.