Table 2 Pharmacy customers’ understanding of medication counselling
From: Patient medication counselling in community pharmacy: evaluation of the quality and content
Description | Frequency (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | I don’t know | |
I am aware that I need to be counselled on the use of medications and other drug/disease-related matters (n = 552) | 497 (90.0) | 39 (7.1) | 16 (2.9) |
Medication counselling should be provided in community pharmacies (n = 550) | 437 (79. 5) | 49 (8.9) | 64 (11.6) |
Only the pharmacist is in the best place to give information as regards medications gotten from the pharmacy (n = 553) | 190 (34.4) | 200 (36.4) | 163 (29.5) |
I believe that medication counselling involves the pharmacist providing information about: | |||
What the medication is supposed to do (550) | 495 (90.0) | 9 (1.6) | 46 (8.4) |
How long the medication is to be taken (n = 549) | 486 (88.5) | 15 (2.7) | 48 (8.7) |
How to properly store the medication (n = 550) | 389 (70.7) | 83 (15.1) | 78 (14.2) |
The way the medication was manufactured (n = 547) | 120 (21.9) | 287 (52.5) | 140 (25.6) |
The company that produced the medication (n = 546) | 135 (24.7) | 266 (48.7) | 145 (26.6) |
What to do with leftover medications (n = 546) | 276 (50.5) | 163 (29.9) | 107 (19.6) |
Proper diet and how to adjust my lifestyle (n = 547) | 415 (75.9) | 66 (12.1) | 66 (12.1) |
The cost of the medication (n = 555) | 386 (70.8) | 83 (15.2) | 76 (13.9) |