Knowledge and Opinion of Patients on Pharmacists' Counselling of Antibacterial Usage in Ogun State Nigeria
Keywords:
Patients, Antibacterials, Knowledge, Opinion, CounsellingAbstract
Background: The relief from the high morbidity and mortality of the pre antibacterial era is being threatened by antibacterial resistance. This has been traced to irrational antibacterial use probably due to lack of proper counselling. In Nigeria, there is scarcity of study on impact of pharmacists' counselling on patients' knowledge of antibacterial use. This study therefore assessed patients' knowledge and opinion of antibacterial use due to pharmacists' counselling.
Methods: The study was a cross-sectional study among patients with antibacterial prescription dispensed at the outpatient department of seventeen government-owned secondary health care facilities in Ogun state of Nigeria. Consecutive sampling was used to administer a pre-tested questionnaire-guided interview to 409 patients determined by Raosoft sample size calculator.
Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage and mean + SD was used to summarize the data. Chi-square was used to investigate association between socio-demographic characteristics and patients' response.
Results: One hundred and fifty-four (37.7%) of the patients were males, 248 (60.6%) were not aware of presence of antibacterial drug(s) in their regimen, 247 (60.4%) were not able to identify the antibacterials while 353 (86.3%) and 390 (95.4%) claimed not be counselled on the use of the antibacterials in relation to meals and side effects respectively. Onlyl00 (24.4%) had a score > 70% implying good knowledge. Two hundred and eighty four (69.4%) believed that pharmacists should be responsible for antibacterial counselling and 226 (55.3%) rated the pharmacists' counseling as being good (70-100%).
Conclusion: Patients' knowledge of antibacterial usage was poor despite their good opinion about counselling by pharmacists. Most of the patients were not aware and unable to identify antibacterial drugs in their regimen. It is important that pharmacists take the issue of patients-centered approach in antibacterial counselling very serious. Training of pharmacists on antibacterial counselling is hereby recommended
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