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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2024
Assessing Public Awareness, Utilization and Satisfaction with Community Pharmacy Services.
The Saudi Community pharmacy sector has been changing towards patient-centred care rather than depending solely on dispensing medications. Accordingly, pharmacies can now provide many services that they previously could not offer. The aims of this study were to identify all pharmacy services provided in a community setting and to assess public awareness and utilization of and satisfaction with these services. ⋯ The majority of the participants were unaware of the full range of available pharmacy services. There is a potential for community pharmacists to fill the capacity gap in the healthcare system since, overall, the participants rated the pharmacies' clinical services as satisfactory. Commissioners of pharmacy services may consider extending the scope of community pharmacies to include services that best utilize the expertise of clinical pharmacists.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2024
Residents Preferences for Pharmacist-Managed Clinic in China: A Discrete Choice Experiment.
This study aimed to survey and analyze the preferences for pharmacist-managed clinic among urban residents in China. ⋯ The respondents were willing to choose a PMC relative to the current situation. When deciding on a pharmacist-managed clinic, residents are driven by pharmacists' competency, consultation fee, availability of consultation rooms and collaborative care or independent pharmacist service. Differences in patients' preferences identified in the study provide information on pharmacist-managed clinics that meet residents' expectations.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2024
Structural Equation Modelling to Identify Psychometric Determinants of Medication Adherence in a Survey of Kidney Dialysis Patients.
Medication non-adherence in dialysis patients is associated with increased mortality and higher healthcare costs. We assessed whether medication adherence is influenced by specific psychometric constructs measuring beliefs about the necessity for medication and concerns about them. We also tested whether medication knowledge, health literacy, and illness perceptions influenced this relationship. ⋯ Interventions that reduce patients' concerns about their medications are likely to improve adherence, rather than interventions that increase patients' perceived necessity for medication. Improving patients' general health literacy and facilitating a better understanding and more positive perception of the illness can probably achieve this. Our study is potentially limited by a lack of generalizability outside of the population and setting in which it was conducted.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2024
Personalized Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence for Persons with Multiple Sclerosis.
To evaluate the acceptability, retention, and efficacy of face-to-face intervention, incorporating education and Motivational Interviewing (MI) to support persons with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (PwRRMS) and increase self-reported medication adherence. ⋯ This study demonstrated reasonable retention and initial efficacy of a combined psycho-education and MI protocol for PwRRMS to enhance medication adherence to DMT. To maintain the change, a more sustained intervention is required.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2024
Comparison of Aversion to Visual Dental Stimuli Between Patients and Dentists: A Preliminary Study.
Fearful dental patients often cite various dental instruments or procedures as triggers for their dental fear. Thus, visual dental stimuli provoke anxiety. This preliminary study aimed to assess the level of aversion to visual stimuli in dental patients and compare it with that in dentists. ⋯ This study revealed that patients have more negative feelings toward invasive procedures than dentists. However, a significant correlation was identified between the ranking of aversion-provoking dental stimuli by patients and dentists. Furthermore, the level of aversion to several dental-related items that do not cause pain was correlated with the dental fear level.