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KMID : 0869620140310020713
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Journal of Korean Society of Hospital Pharmacists
2014 Volume.31 No. 2 p.713 ~ p.723
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A Survey on the Awareness of Current Medication Residents in a Region without Separation of Dispensary from Medical Practice
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Park Sun-Hee
Yang Young-Mo
Choe In
Choi Eun-Joo
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Abstract
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The patients in the regions without separation of prescribing and dispensing practice in Korea do not have sufficient opportunities for drug education due to the shortage of hospitals and pharmacies. Especially, most of residents in these areas are elderly people whose cognition and understandings have been gradually declined, which may contribute to low awareness and suboptimal compliances of current medication. According to some studies, suboptimal compliances on current medication of patients can lead to increase in drug-related problems (DRPs), medical cost, hospitalization rate, and mortality rate. However, there have been few studies related to enhancing the awareness and compliance of the residents on medications in these regions. Therefore, the goal of this study was to provide basic data for improving the awareness and compliance of residents on medications in these regions through examining and analyzing the surveys. The self-questionnaire surveys were performed by the residents who received pharmaceutical health services from the volunteers for 3 days in Eomda-Myeon of Hampyeong, South Jeolla Province in Korea. Of those questionnaires, 200 were selected to be analyzed, and 82% (n=164) of the total respondents (n=200) had more than one chronic disease. Seven respondents (4.3%) answered that they greatly knew the drugs for their chronic diseases, 43 respondents (26.2%) answered that they mostly knew them, and 114 respondents (69.5%) answered that they did not know them. In addition, a total of 87 residents (43.5%) responded that they greatly and mostly knew the name and efficacy of their current medications including drugs for the chronic diseases. This result showed the considerably low awareness of the current medications. NSAIDs were mainly dispensed by these pharmaceutical health volunteer services for 3 days. The average
number of dispensed NSAIDs per resident was 1.11. Further related studies to improve the patients’awareness and compliance of medications as well as the accessibilities of the healthcare services should be implemented through the expansion of the opportunities for effective drug education by pharmacists in the regions.
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KEYWORD
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Separation, Dispensing, Prescribing, Medication, Awareness, Compliance
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