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Exploring Patient Perception on the Role of Pharmacist Based Patient Counselling in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Qualitative Study
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MAGESH , ARUNACHALAM P, DR. MOHAMMED ABDUL SALAAM, DR K KAMESWARI
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Patient counseling denotes to the procedure of if data, information and help the patient use their medication properly. A prospective observational study was carried out in patients admitted to Dr. Pinnamneni Siddhartha Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Foundation for a period of 6 months. Questionnaire was divided into 3 parts and was analyzed using Likert’s scale. Statistical analysis was done using graph pad prism. Results obtained from the study shows that 324(32.45) of patients agreed and 296(29.6%) of patients strongly agreed to the patient counseling. 464(46.4%) patients felt that pharmacists provide medication counseling, 490(49.0%) of patients perceived that pharmacists had given enough time. A large number of participants 489(48.9%) considered pharmacist as an expert in drug related matters. Majority of participants 806(80.6%) in the study felt that pharmacist provided them with thorough medication counseling which is moderately obvious that participants are actual strong around the main tasks of pharmacist and deliver the same in the optimal by encouraging them to ask questions. As the counseling was done in regional language Telugu 990(99%) of participants were pleased by language utilized by the pharmacist during counseling session. The results of the study shows that a pharmacist based patient counseling services are positively associated with pharmacist knowledge related to drugs, time provided by the pharmacist to the patients, medication history interview and language used by the pharmacist.
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Pharmacist, patient counseling, public perception, patient adherence.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP1.472
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