Patient perspectives to self edication: Community Pharmacy
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book tries to determine patients perspectives regarding OTC medication, analyse incidence of irresponsible medication, and show reasons for predisposing factors that contribute to, and methods used to reduce these events.
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This book tries to determine patients perspectives regarding OTC medication, analyse incidence of irresponsible medication, and show reasons for predisposing factors that contribute to, and methods used to reduce these events. Three quarters of the participants in this study were knowledgeable about the potential for abuse of some OTC drugs and most named analgesics as the most liable for abuse. Almost one third of the participants came across cases of OTC abuse. Participants were positive towards the health care being provided by their local pharmacy. They felt that pharmacists play an important role in providing advice on OTC medicines use.
The OTC drug abuse problem needs to be tackled urgently as shown by the number of participants witnessing such abuse. Patients with higher managerial, administrative and professional occupations were more likely to follow the directions on the packet. Patients with manual occupations were more likely to seek the advice of a pharmacist rather than a doctor if a given OTC product did not work within a recommended time period.
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Reliability testing
To measure the questionnaire for reliability two tests were employed. These were the Pearson correlation coefficient and the paired t-test. The former was calculated to examine whether there is a linear relationship between answers given on day 1 and day 15. For those questions where a perfect correlation ( =1) was not obtained further analysis was employed. This involved the calculation of the paired t-test with a 95% confidence level to determine whether there was a significant difference in results obtained
For the questions shown in table 2 the paired t-test confirmed that there was no significant difference between responses for the mentioned questions (p0.05). Therefore, the questionnaire was deemed reliable and could be used for this study.
Demographics
Of the 200 patients/customers interviewed, 62% were females (124) and 38% were males (76). A pie chart comparing the age groups of participants is found in Figure 1. The largest group were those between the ages of 20-30 years (24%) while the smallest were those under the age of 20 years representing just 4% of participants.
Participants who took regular prescription medicines amounted to 48% while 44% had access to free medicines either with a pink or yellow card.
Patient interaction with a local pharmacy
The majority of participants (75%) visited a community pharmacy at least once a month. Females visited the pharmacy more often than males ( 2 = 15.671, p less 0.05). In fact, 78% of females were responsible for the purchase of non-prescription medicines in their household. However, when comparing gender with the most frequent user of OTC products no significant difference was found ( 2 = 0.861, p 0.05). Participants who were not entitled to free medication bought OTC products more frequently than those who were entitled to free medication ( 2= 9.875, p less 0.05). The main reason for visiting a pharmacy was to obtain medicines on prescription
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(43%) followed closely by those who obtain OTC products (36%). Only 15% frequented the pharmacy mainly to buy items other than medicines and 6% to obtain health related advice/information. Respondents always or often used the same chemist shop in 75% of cases with the two main reasons being for good advice on medicines and since the pharmacy is close to home . Almost three quarters of respondents (74%) who always or often used the same chemist shop knew the chemist personally.
Views on OTC use
Over a half (56.5%) of participants reported buying OTC drugs at least once per month and the majority (69.5%) would always or often follow the directions on the product. Those who rarely or never follow the directions amounted to 17%. A statistically significant difference was found between the level of occupation of respondents and how frequently they followed directions on the packet. Patients with higher managerial, administrative and professional occupations were more likely to follow the directions ( 2 = 20.38, p less 0.05). However, no difference was found between the gender groups ( 2 =1.468, p 0.05). A list of OTC products stocked at home by participants is shown in table 3. As expected, painkillers were the most stocked OTC item with 89% always stocking them at home followed by cold/flu remedies at 58%.
Views on OTC use
Over a half (56.5%) of participants reported buying OTC drugs at least once per month and the majority (69.5%) would always or often follow the directions on the product. Those who rarely or never follow the directions amounted to 17%. A statistically significant difference was found between the level of occupation of respondents and how frequently they followed directions on the packet. Patients with higher managerial, administrative and professional occupations were more likely to follow the directions ( 2 = 20.38, p less 0.05). However, no difference was found between the gender groups ( 2 =1.468, p 0.05). A list of OTC products stocked at home by participants is shown in table 3. As expected, painkillers were the most stocked OTC item with 89% always stocking them at home followed by cold/flu remedies at 58%.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Debrincat
- 2014, Erstauflage, 128 Seiten, 9 Abbildungen, Maße: 15,5 x 22 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Anchor Academic Publishing
- ISBN-10: 3954892278
- ISBN-13: 9783954892273
Sprache:
Englisch
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