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An audit on parental attitudes towards medicines used in children
INTRODUCTION: There is growing concerns regarding the use of medicines in children. Therefore, many strategies were implemented to improve such use and make safe and effective medicines more available for children. Enhancing interaction between parents and health care providers plays an important ro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5783804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29379345 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2017.10.001 |
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author | Mukattash, Tareq L. ALGhzawi, Nuha Y. Abu Farha, Rana K. Jarab, Anan S. Hämeen-Anttila, Katri Vainio, Kristi Gammoh, Omar S. |
author_facet | Mukattash, Tareq L. ALGhzawi, Nuha Y. Abu Farha, Rana K. Jarab, Anan S. Hämeen-Anttila, Katri Vainio, Kristi Gammoh, Omar S. |
author_sort | Mukattash, Tareq L. |
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description | INTRODUCTION: There is growing concerns regarding the use of medicines in children. Therefore, many strategies were implemented to improve such use and make safe and effective medicines more available for children. Enhancing interaction between parents and health care providers plays an important role in insuring the proper use of medicines. In order to optimize such interaction, the attitudes, beliefs and practices of parents toward medicine use in children need to be explored. METHODS: A validated questionnaire was administered via face to face interviews to 1000 parents attending pediatric outpatient clinics with their children in order to investigate their attitudes toward children's medicines. RESULTS: The majority of respondents (83.2%) were mothers. The majority participants (84.4%) agreed that medicines are necessary in treating illnesses, 80% of the parents had worries about the side effects and interactions of medicines, and 60% of the parents said they try to avoid giving medicines to their children. Moreover, parents in this study varied considerably in their views toward prescription and over-the- counter medicines. More than half of the participants (55.2%) declared that doctors in Jordan prescribe antibiotics to children too easily. CONCLUSION: Participants had positive attitudes toward the necessity of medicines for ill children. However, a considerable proportion of the parents had negative attitudes toward children's medicines with respect to their side effects and interactions, their capability of disturbing the body's own capability of healing illnesses, their unnatural characteristic and other aspects related to medicines. |
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spelling | pubmed-57838042018-01-29 An audit on parental attitudes towards medicines used in children Mukattash, Tareq L. ALGhzawi, Nuha Y. Abu Farha, Rana K. Jarab, Anan S. Hämeen-Anttila, Katri Vainio, Kristi Gammoh, Omar S. Saudi Pharm J Article INTRODUCTION: There is growing concerns regarding the use of medicines in children. Therefore, many strategies were implemented to improve such use and make safe and effective medicines more available for children. Enhancing interaction between parents and health care providers plays an important role in insuring the proper use of medicines. In order to optimize such interaction, the attitudes, beliefs and practices of parents toward medicine use in children need to be explored. METHODS: A validated questionnaire was administered via face to face interviews to 1000 parents attending pediatric outpatient clinics with their children in order to investigate their attitudes toward children's medicines. RESULTS: The majority of respondents (83.2%) were mothers. The majority participants (84.4%) agreed that medicines are necessary in treating illnesses, 80% of the parents had worries about the side effects and interactions of medicines, and 60% of the parents said they try to avoid giving medicines to their children. Moreover, parents in this study varied considerably in their views toward prescription and over-the- counter medicines. More than half of the participants (55.2%) declared that doctors in Jordan prescribe antibiotics to children too easily. CONCLUSION: Participants had positive attitudes toward the necessity of medicines for ill children. However, a considerable proportion of the parents had negative attitudes toward children's medicines with respect to their side effects and interactions, their capability of disturbing the body's own capability of healing illnesses, their unnatural characteristic and other aspects related to medicines. Elsevier 2018-01 2017-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5783804/ /pubmed/29379345 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2017.10.001 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Mukattash, Tareq L. ALGhzawi, Nuha Y. Abu Farha, Rana K. Jarab, Anan S. Hämeen-Anttila, Katri Vainio, Kristi Gammoh, Omar S. An audit on parental attitudes towards medicines used in children |
title | An audit on parental attitudes towards medicines used in children |
title_full | An audit on parental attitudes towards medicines used in children |
title_fullStr | An audit on parental attitudes towards medicines used in children |
title_full_unstemmed | An audit on parental attitudes towards medicines used in children |
title_short | An audit on parental attitudes towards medicines used in children |
title_sort | audit on parental attitudes towards medicines used in children |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5783804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29379345 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2017.10.001 |
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