PMID: 25727041Mar 3, 2015Paper

Contribution of Slovenian community pharmacist counseling to patients' knowledge about their prescription medicines: a cross-sectional study

Croatian Medical Journal
Nejc Horvat, Mitja Kos

Abstract

To assess patients' knowledge about prescription medicines they are taking and their view on how much community pharmacist counseling contributed to their knowledge. An observational study was designed to obtain information about patients' knowledge, their view on pharmacist counseling, and physicians'/pharmacists' provision of information. This study used a specifically designed questionnaire, which served as an interview guide. 400 patients picking up a prescription medicine were structurally interviewed upon leaving one of the 20 randomly chosen Slovenian pharmacies. The interviews took place in November and December 2013. Patients were familiar with general information about the medicines and their application (93%-100% of patients). Knowledge about considerations (16% of patients) and adverse effects (20% of patients) was limited. Factors associated with patient knowledge were physicians'/pharmacists' adequate provision of information (β=0.259), patient's age (β=- 0.149), patient's education (β=0.100), and prescription type (β=-0.104). Patients' responses were mostly consistent with the Summaries of Product Characteristics (72%-96% of responses). However, 42% of responses to the question about taking medicine with meals we...Continue Reading

Citations

Feb 1, 2019·Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice·Kérilin Stancine Santos RochaDivaldo Pereira de Lyra Júnior
Mar 24, 2021·BMC Health Services Research·Urška Nabergoj MakovecMitja Kos

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