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National initiative to promote public involvement in medicine safety: the use of a cross-sectional population survey to identify candidate behaviours for intervention development in Scotland

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to explore the public’s current awareness of the safe use of medicines in general, and over-the-counter (OTC) analgesics (painkillers) in particular, as well as their information-seeking and advice-seeking, medicine use and disposal. SETTING: General population,...

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Autores principales: Gangannagaripalli, Jaheeda, McIver, Laura, Abutheraa, Nouf, Brewster, Richard, Dixon, Diane, Watson, Margaret C
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10186419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37169507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058966
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author Gangannagaripalli, Jaheeda
McIver, Laura
Abutheraa, Nouf
Brewster, Richard
Dixon, Diane
Watson, Margaret C
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McIver, Laura
Abutheraa, Nouf
Brewster, Richard
Dixon, Diane
Watson, Margaret C
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description OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to explore the public’s current awareness of the safe use of medicines in general, and over-the-counter (OTC) analgesics (painkillers) in particular, as well as their information-seeking and advice-seeking, medicine use and disposal. SETTING: General population, Scotland. PARTICIPANTS: Adults (aged >16 years) living in Scotland. INTERVENTIONS: A cross-sectional survey was undertaken in collaboration with Ipsos MORI (a market research company). The content was informed by a multi-stakeholder prioritisation event and supplemented with information from earlier studies. RESULTS: The survey was completed in March 2020 by 1000 respondents, most of whom had used a pharmacy in the previous 12 months to obtain a medicine. Of the 1000 respondents, 39% (n=389) were 55 years and over; 52% (n=517) were women; and 58% were degree-educated. On receipt of a new prescription, up to 29.8% (95% CI 27.0% to 32.7%) of respondents proactively sought specific information or advice from the pharmacist. Few (5.2% (95% CI 4.0% to 6.8%) respondents ‘always’ discussed their new prescription medicine with pharmacy staff and 28.9% (95% CI 26.2% to 31.8%) reported ‘never’ engaging in this behaviour. Respondents aged >35 years were less likely to engage in this behaviour. Just over half (53% (95% CI 50.5% to 56.7%)) the respondents reported oral OTC analgesic use at least once in the previous month. In terms of medicine disposal, 29.3% (95% CI 26.6% to 32.2%) of respondents considered waste bin disposal to be of low or no harm. CONCLUSIONS: This study identified low levels of information-seeking and advice-seeking from pharmacy personnel especially on receipt of new prescription medicines. Potentially unsafe behaviours were identified in the use and disposal of medicines. These results will inform the development of interventions to promote advice-seeking and increase awareness regarding safe medicine use.
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spelling pubmed-101864192023-05-17 National initiative to promote public involvement in medicine safety: the use of a cross-sectional population survey to identify candidate behaviours for intervention development in Scotland Gangannagaripalli, Jaheeda McIver, Laura Abutheraa, Nouf Brewster, Richard Dixon, Diane Watson, Margaret C BMJ Open Public Health OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to explore the public’s current awareness of the safe use of medicines in general, and over-the-counter (OTC) analgesics (painkillers) in particular, as well as their information-seeking and advice-seeking, medicine use and disposal. SETTING: General population, Scotland. PARTICIPANTS: Adults (aged >16 years) living in Scotland. INTERVENTIONS: A cross-sectional survey was undertaken in collaboration with Ipsos MORI (a market research company). The content was informed by a multi-stakeholder prioritisation event and supplemented with information from earlier studies. RESULTS: The survey was completed in March 2020 by 1000 respondents, most of whom had used a pharmacy in the previous 12 months to obtain a medicine. Of the 1000 respondents, 39% (n=389) were 55 years and over; 52% (n=517) were women; and 58% were degree-educated. On receipt of a new prescription, up to 29.8% (95% CI 27.0% to 32.7%) of respondents proactively sought specific information or advice from the pharmacist. Few (5.2% (95% CI 4.0% to 6.8%) respondents ‘always’ discussed their new prescription medicine with pharmacy staff and 28.9% (95% CI 26.2% to 31.8%) reported ‘never’ engaging in this behaviour. Respondents aged >35 years were less likely to engage in this behaviour. Just over half (53% (95% CI 50.5% to 56.7%)) the respondents reported oral OTC analgesic use at least once in the previous month. In terms of medicine disposal, 29.3% (95% CI 26.6% to 32.2%) of respondents considered waste bin disposal to be of low or no harm. CONCLUSIONS: This study identified low levels of information-seeking and advice-seeking from pharmacy personnel especially on receipt of new prescription medicines. Potentially unsafe behaviours were identified in the use and disposal of medicines. These results will inform the development of interventions to promote advice-seeking and increase awareness regarding safe medicine use. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10186419/ /pubmed/37169507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058966 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Gangannagaripalli, Jaheeda
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Brewster, Richard
Dixon, Diane
Watson, Margaret C
National initiative to promote public involvement in medicine safety: the use of a cross-sectional population survey to identify candidate behaviours for intervention development in Scotland
title National initiative to promote public involvement in medicine safety: the use of a cross-sectional population survey to identify candidate behaviours for intervention development in Scotland
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title_fullStr National initiative to promote public involvement in medicine safety: the use of a cross-sectional population survey to identify candidate behaviours for intervention development in Scotland
title_full_unstemmed National initiative to promote public involvement in medicine safety: the use of a cross-sectional population survey to identify candidate behaviours for intervention development in Scotland
title_short National initiative to promote public involvement in medicine safety: the use of a cross-sectional population survey to identify candidate behaviours for intervention development in Scotland
title_sort national initiative to promote public involvement in medicine safety: the use of a cross-sectional population survey to identify candidate behaviours for intervention development in scotland
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10186419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37169507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058966
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