Investigation of Cognition,Demand and Satisfaction on Pharmaceutical Care in Residents over 65 y/o and behavior of medication disposal in Taoyuan country, Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chuan-hui Chen, 陳傳慧
• Other Authors: Tzu-Chueh Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6n9ypf

碩士 === 嘉南藥理大學 === 藥學系 === 103 === The Taoyuan Country Health Bureau has offered free pharmaceutical care for senior citizens for three years. This study intends to investigate the cognition, demand, and satisfaction about the services senior residents, and behavior of medication disposal. Total of 385 senior citizens received this services. There were 137 subjects who agreed to attend this study. Descriptive analysis, Chi-Squared, t-test, and multiple linear regression were performed for statistical analysis using SPSS. The results of this study showed that cognitive subjects of pharmaceutical care, satisfaction and demand were 79.0%, 84.5% and 71.7%, especially the services gain them to understand the goal of medication, avoid side effects, and the service attitude of the pharmacists such as general attitude and providing information and explanations , it make them confidence in the treatment of pharmacists professional service and community pharmacy care are quite satisfied, but also accept pharmaceutical care at home than community and hospital pharmacy is , this study also demonstrated the cognition, satisfaction and demand, showing a positive correlation, this results to the Taoyuan country Government and pharmaceutical services team encouragement and affirmation. To upgrade the ability of the pharmacist’s pharmaceutical care is necessary in the future, training more pharmacists recruiters, to create a health-cum-Taoyuan County, age-friendly city.to struggle the regular forecast budget for Taoyuan willing be a profession pharmaceutical care pharmacists. Medication waste is a problem worldwide. It is a burden to national health insurance, not only due to the cost of the drugs being returned, but also due to the cost of disposing of the returned items. Causes of this waste can include excess supply, treatment changes, and patient nonadherence, as well as other reasons. Research has shown that accidental and intentional nonadherence to respiratory medications is common and that this nonadherence, as well as underuse of inhaled corticosteroids and overuse of short-acting b-agonists, consumes significantly more healthcare resources. The most returned medication was acetaminophen,which is not unexpected, given that it is also the most prescribed medication. Many of the most returned drugs were of an as-needed nature, such as analgesics, laxatives, antiemetics, and antidiarrheals. To develop appropriate waste reduction strategies it is first necessary to identify the reasons that these medications are not used in the Taoyuan country setting.