Patient awareness, willingness, and barriers to point-of-care hepatitis C screening in community pharmacy

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA
Alexander BrewerHolly Divine

Abstract

To determine patients' awareness of the screening recommendations for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in "Baby Boomers," to assess patients' willingness to receive a point-of-care HCV screening test in the pharmacy, and to determine patients' barriers to receiving a point-of-care HCV screening test in a community pharmacy. An anonymous 12-question survey was developed. Five shareholder pharmacies of American Pharmacy Services Corporation (APSC) volunteered to participate. Surveys were mailed to participating pharmacies with instructions to distribute to patients born in 1945 to 1965 at the pharmacy point-of-sale. Data were collected over a 12-week period from October 2016 to January 2017. Completed surveys were collected by participating pharmacies and mailed to the primary investigator. Data were analyzed with the use of descriptive statistics. Ninety-five eligible surveys were returned and analyzed. A majority of respondents were female (63.00%) and held a bachelor degree or higher (63.16%); 38.95% of patients were aware of HCV age-based risk factors and screening recommendations. Only 9.80% of patients were aware of the fingerstick point-of-care testing (POCT) option for HCV. Nearly three-fourths (71.70%) were willing to receive POC...Continue Reading

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