Pharmacotherapy Literacy of Parents in the Rural and Urban Areas of Serbia—Are There Any Differences?
| العنوان: | Pharmacotherapy Literacy of Parents in the Rural and Urban Areas of Serbia—Are There Any Differences? |
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| المؤلفون: | Natasa Bogavac-Stanojevic, Stana Ubavić, Dušanka Krajnović |
| المصدر: | Medicina Volume 55 Issue 9 Medicina (Lithuania) Medicina; Volume 55; Issue 9; Pages: 590 Medicina, Vol 55, Iss 9, p 590 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Parents, Male, Rural Population, Medicine (General), Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Urban Population, genetic structures, pharmacist, Breastfeeding, 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy, Literacy, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, 11. Sustainability, Medicine, Rural, 030212 general & internal medicine, Child, media_common, 4. Education, pre-school children, 1. No poverty, parents, Content delivery, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Pharmacist, Female, pharmacotherapy literacy, rural, Serbia, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, media_common.quotation_subject, Child Welfare, Pre-school children, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, R5-920, Pharmacotherapy, Drug Therapy, Patient Education as Topic, Humans, business.industry, Pharmacotherapy literacy, Chronic disease, Cross-Sectional Studies, Socioeconomic Factors, Family medicine, Rural area, business, Pediatric population |
| الوصف: | Background and objectives: Pharmacotherapy literacy (PHTL) is an individual&rsquo s capacity to obtain, evaluate, calculate, and comprehend basic information about pharmacotherapy and pharmacy-related services necessary to make appropriate medication-related decisions, regardless of the mode of content delivery (e.g., written, oral, visual images and symbols). It is already proven that low PHTL of parents can cause serious problems in the treatment of a pediatric population. We aimed to identify the differences in parental PHTL levels, socio-demographic and health-related characteristics (chronic disease of a child, breastfeeding of a child, annual visits to a pediatrician, parental-self-estimation of health status) between rural and urban areas and to investigate the influence of living in rural areas on a low PHTL level. Materials and methods: Our study was cross-sectional with a validated 14-item instrument (&ldquo Parental pharmacotherapy literacy questionnaire&mdash Serbian&rdquo ), which assessed overall PHTL and its three domains of knowledge, understanding and numerical skills necessary for the safe use of medicines. We analyzed 250 parents of pre-school children (1&ndash 7 years old) in rural areas and 182 parents from urban areas in Serbia. Results: Every tenth parent from rural and every fourth parent from urban areas had the highest PHTL level or more than 85% correct answers. However, 51% and 28% of parents in rural and urban areas, respectively, had a low PHTL level (less than 65% correct answers), [Х2(1, n = 432) = 33.2 p < 0.001]. Parents from different areas statistically differed in age, education level, employment, breastfeeding and annual visits to pediatrician rate. Those from rural areas had almost twice the probability of low PHTL levels (ORa = 2.033 p = 0.003) than their urban counterparts, independently of other examined parental characteristics. Conclusions: Parents from rural areas have more difficulties to obtain, evaluate, calculate and comprehend basic information related to pharmacotherapy than parents from urban areas. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1010-660X |
| DOI: | 10.3390/medicina55090590 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::a14dd20b2b3ca8f15d2ed5e0dffd1285Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....a14dd20b2b3ca8f15d2ed5e0dffd1285 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 1010660X |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/medicina55090590 |