Validation of a questionnaire for patient awareness and the need for a community-based outpatient antimicrobial stewardship program (O-asp): A pilot study
- 주제(키워드) Antimicrobial stewardship program , Community pharmacy , Interprofessional team , Outpatient , Pharmacist
- 후원정보 Chung, E.K.; Department of Pharmacy, South Korea; email: cekchung@khu.ac.kr Rhie, S.J.; Division of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate School, South Korea; email: sandy.rhie@ewha.ac.kr
- 등재 SCIE, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 MDPI AG
- 발행년도 2021
- 총서유형 Journal
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000181816
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10040441
초록/요약
An outpatient antimicrobial stewardship program (O-ASP) was developed and imple-mented to promote appropriate antibiotic therapy in outpatient settings. As active patient involve-ment is a critical component of an effective O-ASP, this study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire addressing patient awareness for appropriate antibiotic therapy and the need for pharmaceutical care services (PCS) in the O-ASP in Korea. The questionnaire was drafted based on ASPs and PCS guidelines and validated for content and construct validity using the item-content validity index (I-CVI) and Cronbach’s alpha, respectively. The estimated I-CVI and Cronbach’s alpha were considered excellent or adequate (≥0.8 and 0.70–0.90, respectively) for most of the survey items (17 out of 23 items). The validated questionnaire was utilized in a pilot survey study, including 112 individuals (37% male) with the mean ± SD age of 37 ± 13 years. Among the survey participants, 68% responded that antibiotics had been prescribed appropriately; however, ≥50% showed a lack of knowledge regarding their antibiotic therapy. The participants expressed the need for PCS as part of an O-ASP in the questionnaire (average Likert score ≥3.4/5). In conclusion, our newly validated questionnaire successfully measured patient awareness and knowledge of antimicrobial use and the need for PCS in the O-ASP. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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