1. Patients’ perception of pharmaceutical services available in a community pharmacy among patients living in a rural area of the United Kingdom
- Author
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Piotr Merks, Miłosz Jaguszewski, and Damian Swieczkowski
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,mesh:Health Knowledge ,mesh:Great Britain ,lcsh:RS1-441 ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Pharmacy ,Community Pharmacy Services ,Minor (academic) ,Pharmacists ,030226 pharmacology & pharmacy ,lcsh:Pharmacy and materia medica ,mesh:Community Pharmacy Services ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,medicine ,mesh:Practice ,mesh:Pharmacists ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Medical prescription ,Original Research ,Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice ,Pharmacies ,Service (business) ,Practice ,business.industry ,Health Knowledge ,lcsh:RM1-950 ,mesh:Pharmacies ,Great Britain ,mesh:Attitudes ,Clinical pharmacy ,lcsh:Therapeutics. Pharmacology ,Pharmaceutical care ,Attitudes ,Family medicine ,mesh:Surveys and Questionnaires ,Rural Health Services ,mesh:Rural Health Services ,Rural area ,business ,Inclusion (education) - Abstract
Objective: Patients’ opinion about prevalence of pharmaceutical services available in a community pharmacy among patients living in a rural area of the United Kingdom. The secondary objective was to identify appropriate action(s) to enhance patients’ awareness of pharmaceutical services in rural areas. Methods: A self-administered, anonymous questionnaire was distributed to patients visiting a community pharmacy in Eye, Suffolk, United Kingdom between July and August, 2015. The main inclusion criterion was living in a rural area. Comparisons were performed using chi-square tests and logistic regression. Results: The study included 103 respondents: 70 women (69.0%) and 33 men (32.0%), aged 16–85 years. Most respondents declared the primary tasks of a community pharmacy were dispensing medicines (86.4% of respondents) and repeat dispensing (72.8% of respondents). Additionally, 23.3% of respondents treated minor ailments at the pharmacy, including bacterial/viral infections, minor injuries, stomach problems, and allergies. The Medicines Use Review service was the only advanced service used in this pharmacy (12.6% of respondents), primarily by men. Younger patients were more familiar with the term of pharmaceutical care (p
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- 2016