Assessment of counseling practice in medicine retail outlets in Mekelle City, Northern Ethiopia
| Autor: | Merafe Samuel Alemayehu, Yared Belete Belay, Abraham Gebregziabiher Welie, Fantaye Teka Dinkashe, Terefe Teshome Kassa |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pharmacy Unit (housing) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Patient Load Medication information 050602 political science & public administration medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Duration (project management) Original Research Risk Management and Healthcare Policy pharmacy professionals business.industry Health Policy 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Confidence interval 0506 political science Pharmaceutical care counseling Family medicine Data collecting Optometry medication business |
| Zdroj: | Risk Management and Healthcare Policy |
| ISSN: | 1179-1594 |
| Popis: | Introduction Patient counseling can ideally be providing medication information orally or in written form to patients or their attendants, and it helps to form a concordant approach on encouraging patient involvement in the pharmaceutical care process and to explore patient’s knowledge and understanding. Lack of adequate knowledge on drugs and up-to-date drug information are the major factor that hinders counseling services. This study assessed counseling practice of pharmacy professionals in Mekelle City. Methods A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted. Professionals who volunteered to participate were involved. Self-administered questionnaires were used as data collecting tool to grasp professionals’ practice on patient counseling, and the data were analyzed by using SPSS version 23. One-way analysis of variance and post hoc statistical tests were done to check for association between sociodemographic and other variables of counseling practice. In the statistical analyses, p-value of 0.05 and 95% confidence interval were considered. Results The most frequent drug information given by the pharmacy professionals to clients were unit dose (65%), frequency of administration (79%), and duration of therapy (62%). Study participants claimed that lack of knowledge (37%), lack of updated drug information (49%), high patient load (62%), and absence of a private counseling room (51%) were the main factors that prohibit pharmacy professionals from counseling their patients. Those pharmacy professionals whose monthly income was 10 years of experience in providing information on storage conditions and written materials with p-value of 0.025 and 0.016, respectively. Conclusion This study proves that the level of satisfactory counseling is still very low compared to the expected practice. Lack of knowledge, lack of updated drug information, high patient load, absence of private counseling room, and underestimating the importance of counseling were identified as some of the factors that impede counseling services. Video abstract |
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