Knowledge, attitude and practice of pharmacists on medication therapy management: a survey in Hospital Pulau Pinang, Penang, Malaysia.
Clinical pharmacy
Hospital pharmacy practice
Medication therapy adherence clinic
Medication therapy management
Pharmaceutical services
Pharmacy practice
Journal
Journal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences
ISSN: 2055-0294
Titre abrégé: J Pharm Health Care Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101672177
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2019
2019
Historique:
received:
24
09
2018
accepted:
02
01
2019
entrez:
18
1
2019
pubmed:
18
1
2019
medline:
18
1
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Medication therapy management (MTM) service provides set of clinical activities to optimize therapeutic outcomes for patients. It requires the collaboration between patient, pharmacist and other healthcare providers to ensure safe and effective use of medicines. The objective of the current study was to assess Hospital Pulau Pinang pharmacists' knowledge, attitude and practice on MTM service. A self-administrated validated survey was carried out among all pharmacists working at Hospital Pulau Pinang. A total of 93 pharmacists out of 130 (71.5%) were included in the study (61.3% between the age of 20-30 years old, 74.2% female, 68.8% Chinese, 88.2% holding bachelor's degree and 48.4% working in medication therapy adherence clinic and outpatient pharmacy). Majority of pharmacists had a high level of knowledge and positive attitudes regarding MTM service. All pharmacists agreed that MTM service could improve the quality of health services and most pharmacists were interested in providing MTM service (92.5%). Moreover, 95.7% were interested in acquiring more information about MTM service. About the barriers that might affect MTM service implementation, the most common barriers identified by pharmacists were lack of training (88.2%), need of high budget to implement MTM service (51.6%) and lack of time (46.2%). Overall, the research findings provide some insights about the Hospital Pulau Pinang pharmacists' knowledge, attitude and practice regarding MTM service. Majority of pharmacists agreed and showed their interest towards the implementation of MTM service.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Medication therapy management (MTM) service provides set of clinical activities to optimize therapeutic outcomes for patients. It requires the collaboration between patient, pharmacist and other healthcare providers to ensure safe and effective use of medicines. The objective of the current study was to assess Hospital Pulau Pinang pharmacists' knowledge, attitude and practice on MTM service.
METHODS
METHODS
A self-administrated validated survey was carried out among all pharmacists working at Hospital Pulau Pinang.
RESULTS
RESULTS
A total of 93 pharmacists out of 130 (71.5%) were included in the study (61.3% between the age of 20-30 years old, 74.2% female, 68.8% Chinese, 88.2% holding bachelor's degree and 48.4% working in medication therapy adherence clinic and outpatient pharmacy). Majority of pharmacists had a high level of knowledge and positive attitudes regarding MTM service. All pharmacists agreed that MTM service could improve the quality of health services and most pharmacists were interested in providing MTM service (92.5%). Moreover, 95.7% were interested in acquiring more information about MTM service. About the barriers that might affect MTM service implementation, the most common barriers identified by pharmacists were lack of training (88.2%), need of high budget to implement MTM service (51.6%) and lack of time (46.2%).
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
Overall, the research findings provide some insights about the Hospital Pulau Pinang pharmacists' knowledge, attitude and practice regarding MTM service. Majority of pharmacists agreed and showed their interest towards the implementation of MTM service.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30652009
doi: 10.1186/s40780-019-0131-9
pii: 131
pmc: PMC6327512
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
1Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Approval for distributing the questionnaires at Hospital Pulau Pinang was obtained from Medical Research and Ethics Committee (MREC), Malaysia (NMRR-17-3186-39,237).Not applicable.The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest in this work.Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
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