title: How Patient-Pharmacist Communication Using the Drug Profile Book Relates to Patient's Behavior regarding Its Use.
abstract: This survey aimed to examine how patient-pharmacist communication using the drug profile book relates patient's behavior regarding its use. Among patients who visited one of the five pharmacies during the 4 months between July and October of 2013, 245 patients who had been prescribed antihypertensives were asked to complete a questionnaire. Items included patient attributes, whether the patient thought the drug profile book was useful to them ("sense of utility"), whether the patient has ever been questioned by a pharmacist while showing the drug profile book ("experience of being questioned by a pharmacist while showing the drug profile book"), and whether the patient has ever shown the drug profile book to the physician ("experience of showing the drug profile book to the physician"). In addition, pharmacists counted the frequency of patients bringing the drug profile book, and if so, the frequency of the sticker affix during the last 5 visits. 34.3% of responding patients answered that they had the "experience of being questioned while showing the drug profile book". Response rates of "frequency of bringing the drug profile book", "sense of utility", and "experience of showing the drug profile book to the physician" in the group with "experience of being questioned while showing the drug profile book" were significantly higher than those in the group without such experience. This survey indicated that experience of being questioned by a pharmacist while showing the drug profile book related patient's behavior regarding its use.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Laboratory of Practical Pharmacy Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shoji
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iwade
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: Miyuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hirota
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kanou
authors.forename: Mami
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moriya
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishii
authors.forename: Shizuka
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shimoji
authors.forename: Mitsuko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Onda
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Arakawa
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D001877:Books; D003142:Communication; D004346:Drug Information Services; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents