Poster - Counseling activities of drug use at community pharmacy in Hue City

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BACKGROUND
OBJECTIVE
RESULT (2)
CONCLUSIONS
According to the pharmacists’ responses,
drug counseling was routinely done despite
of many difficulties. Other studies should be
conducted to assess the quality of counseling
in pharmacies as well as the development of
supporting tools for counseling.
[1] Depart of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue, Viet Nam.
[2] Depart of Pharmacy, Hue University Hospital, Hue, Vietnam
Quoc-Duong Doan1, Thi-Quynh Le1, Thi-Ha Vo1, 2
COUNSELING ACTIVITIES OF DRUG USE AT
COMMUNITY PHARMACIES IN HUE CITY, VIETNAM
COUNSELING ACTIVITIES OF DRUG USE AT
COMMUNITY PHARMACIES IN HUE CITY, VIETNAM
METHODS
The study aimed to characterize
counseling activities of drug use at
community pharmacies at Hue City,
Vietnam
Community pharmacists play an
important role in counseling of rational
drug use for population.
Contact: Thi-Ha VO, Clinical pharmacist, Hue Medicine and Pharmacy University, Hue, Vietnam
Email: havothipharma@gmail.com
17-question survey
PHARMACY STAFF
were asked to fill by
100
community
pharmacies
at Hue City, Vietnam
RESULT (1)
Pharmacies answered
58%
Characteristics of pharmacies:
Average N0 of staff: 2.79±0.88
55.2% 55,2%Pharmacies having >50 customers/day
Common symptoms and diseases encountered
79 77
71
47 44
94
68 65
44 41
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10
20
30
40
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60
70
80
90
100
Characteristics of counseling
Items %
Dosage 83
Before or after meal 79
Administration Route 53
When to take medicine 50
ADR 33
Difficulties %
Lack of time 53
Lack of patients' demand 29
Lack of tools 29
Lack of skills/methods 33
Types of person conducting couselling %
Bachelor Pharmacist (5 year) 74
College Pharmacist (3 years) 26
Secondary Pharmacist (2 years) 54
Elementary pharmacist (1year) 17
Average time of counselling %
<5 mins 55
≥5 mins 45
Frequency %
Seldomly 3
Sometimes 24
Often 74