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2016. Responses by nurses/PNs who were familiar with ADD were included. Results: The response rate for the Nurses Association members was 24 % (n¼370) and for the Practical Nurses Union members 18% (n¼1433). After applying the inclusion criteria, 245 and 1108 responses were included, respectively. Almost all of the respondents had experience in handling ADD pouches (91%) and manual dispensing (99%). For 71% of nurses and 79% of PNs ADD was in use at their current workplace. Majority of nurses (82%) and PNs (86%) totally or partly agreed that ADD complicates or slows down implementation of acute medication changes. Of the respondents, 4% of nurses and 2% of PNs reported implementing medication changes to ADD sachets at least daily, 15% and 9%, respectively, multiple times per week. To identify tablets/capsules, 74% of nurses and 49% of PNs used pharmacopoeias, medication handbooks or National Medicines Agency’s website. Illustrated catalogues by ADD units were used by 31% and ADD units’ website by 20% of nurses and 23% of PNs. QR code was least used: only 6% of nurses and 11% of PNs had used it. Discussion and conclusions: Acute medication changes to ADD sachets are a practice reality that complicate nurses’ and PNs’ work, but QR code designed to fasten identification of individual tablets in ADD sachets is still rarely used. A STUDY ON STUDENT ENVIRONMENT, EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, MOTIVATION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS Johanne Mølby Hansen BA. Pharm a, Andy Wallman b, Dawit Teshome B. alvemark Sporrong a. a University of Copenhagen, Pharm, MSc c, Sofia K€ Denmark; b University of Umeå, Sweden; c University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J.M. Hansen), [email protected] (A. Wallman), [email protected] (D. Teshome), sofi[email protected] (S.K. Sporrong).
Introduction: Some of the basic needs for college students are feelings of esteem, belonging, and safety. These can be met through e.g. extracurricular activities. It has also been found that the sense of belonging in class cultivates the students’ desire to participate in class and trying harder. Motivation is essential to learning and understanding education content. Motivated students have been shown to be more persistent when it comes to academic work. There are no extensive studies conducted on university students studying pharmacy in this regards. Objectives: The overall aim of this study was to explore motivation and extracurricular activities of pharmacy students and describe how these influence academic achievement at three Pharmacy Schools with different properties. Methods: A comparison was performed between Pharma School at Copenhagen University and two other universities, one which has a similar community, but uses distance learning, and one which has a diverse community, culture and infrastructure, i.e. the universities of Umeå, Sweden and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Exploratory interviews were conducted with two students from each university, known to be engaged in extracurricular activities. Hereafter, a content analysis was performed on the interviews. Results: Students’ sense of belonging was impacted by size and structure of the program, e.g. distance learning. Social relations to other students, in different classes, helped confine focus on studying and were important for collegial sparring practice. Participating in extracurricular activities required a carefully planned everyday life, and students hence planned time for reading and teaching. Motivation seemed to be driven by personal development, possible job prospects, finding out what a job could consist of and how it relates to the education. Students in all three countries wished for more time and better relations with educators. However, direct improvement on overall academic achievements was not reported. The interviewed students were very happy with studying pharmacy. Discussion and conclusions: The students who participated in this study were found to benefit from engaging in extracurricular activities by increasing their network, gaining energy from social activity and develop job relevant skills. They had expectations about becoming a wholerounded person with social and communicative skills as well as academic. Although the universities had different culture and infrastructure, there were no big differences in attitudes towards the benefits of participating in
extracurricular activities between the three universities. ROUTINE COLLECTION OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE DATA IN A HOSPITAL e IS THE DATA REPRESENTATIVE? Oinasmaa Salla MSc a,1, Heiskanen Jari b, c,1, Hartikainen €inen Mikko MD b, Miettinen Heikki b, Martikainen Juha b, a, Hippela Janne a, Roine Risto a, b, d, Tolppanen Anna-Maija a. a University of Eastern Finland, Finland; b Kuopio University Hospital, Finland; c School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; d Helsinki University Hospital, Finland E-mail addresses: [email protected].fi (O. Salla), jari.heiskanen@uef.fi (H. Jari), juha. hartikainen@kuh.fi (H. Juha), mikko.hippelainen@kuh.fi (H. Mikko), heikki.miettinen@kuh.fi (M. Heikki), janne.martikainen@uef.fi (M. Janne), risto.roine@uef.fi (R. Risto), anna-maija.tolppanen@uef.fi (T. Anna-Maija).
Introduction: The importance of patient-reported outcomes, such as health-related quality of life (HRQoL), has been emphasised when assessing the effectiveness of healthcare. In Kuopio University Hospital, the routine collection of HRQoL data with the 15D instrument as part of the admission process was initiated with a six-month pilot phase in June 2012. The questionnaire should have been administered to all coronary artery disease patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). If these data are used for example, assessing the effectiveness of treatment or for benchmarking purposes, their representativeness of the actual patient material is crucial. Objectives: To assess whether the obtained baseline and 12-month followup HRQoL data are representative of all treated patients. Methods: The cohort included all elective CABG (N¼404) and PCI (N¼738) patients, treated during 6/2012-12/2014. The characteristics of the patients from whom the baseline (n¼260 and 290 for CABG and PCI, respectively) or baseline and follow-up questionnaires were obtained (n¼203 and 189 for CABG and PCI, respectively) were compared to those with no HRQoL data (n¼144 and 448 for CABG and PCI, respectively) with logistic regression. Results: In comparison to the pilot phase (2012), the proportion of obtained responses was lower in 2014 for CABG patients (OR, 95% CI¼ 0.47, 0.27-0.83), whereas for PCI patients the baseline questionnaires were obtained more often in 2013 (OR; 95% CI 2.22, 1.50-3.28) than in 2012, but this returned to same level with the pilot phase in 2014. The baseline questionnaires were less likely obtained from older CABG patients (0.25, 0.28-0.91) and those with more severe disease, as indicated by CCS/NYHA class 4 (0.20, 0.05-0.79) or higher number of hospital days one year before the operation. Of these factors, longer hospital stay was associated with a smaller probability of answering the follow-up questionnaire. Among PCI patients, women (0.69, 0.46-1.02), smokers (0.70, 0.49-1.02), those with more severe disease as indicated by CCS/NYHA class 4 (0.21, 0.08-0.52) or more hospital days one year before the operation were underrepresented among those with follow-up data. Similar associations were observed with failure to obtain a baseline response. Discussion and conclusions: When individual HRQoL data are used for effectiveness evaluation, it is important to ensure they represents the entire patient population. Consequently, adequate resources need to be allocated for data collection. The higher proportion of obtained questionnaires among CABG patients may reflect differences in the admission and data collection process. PATIENTS' EXPECTATIONS ON RECEIVING MEDICINES INFORMATION FROM COMMUNITY PHARMACIES Anahit Sevikyan PhD a, Irina Kazaryan PhD a, Anahit Amirkhanyan PhD a, Margarit Melikyan b. a Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia; b FARMEX LLC, Armenia E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. Sevikyan), [email protected] (I. Kazaryan), [email protected] (A. Amirkhanyan), margaritmelikyan@yahoo. com (M. Melikyan).
Introduction: Receiving medicines information is important for patients
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Abstracts / Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 13 (2017) e1ee15
2016. Responses by nurses/PNs who were familiar with ADD were included. Results: The response rate for the Nurses Association members was 24 % (n¼370) and for the Practical Nurses Union members 18% (n¼1433). After applying the inclusion criteria, 245 and 1108 responses were included, respectively. Almost all of the respondents had experience in handling ADD pouches (91%) and manual dispensing (99%). For 71% of nurses and 79% of PNs ADD was in use at their current workplace. Majority of nurses (82%) and PNs (86%) totally or partly agreed that ADD complicates or slows down implementation of acute medication changes. Of the respondents, 4% of nurses and 2% of PNs reported implementing medication changes to ADD sachets at least daily, 15% and 9%, respectively, multiple times per week. To identify tablets/capsules, 74% of nurses and 49% of PNs used pharmacopoeias, medication handbooks or National Medicines Agency’s website. Illustrated catalogues by ADD units were used by 31% and ADD units’ website by 20% of nurses and 23% of PNs. QR code was least used: only 6% of nurses and 11% of PNs had used it. Discussion and conclusions: Acute medication changes to ADD sachets are a practice reality that complicate nurses’ and PNs’ work, but QR code designed to fasten identification of individual tablets in ADD sachets is still rarely used. A STUDY ON STUDENT ENVIRONMENT, EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, MOTIVATION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS Johanne Mølby Hansen BA. Pharm a, Andy Wallman b, Dawit Teshome B. alvemark Sporrong a. a University of Copenhagen, Pharm, MSc c, Sofia K€ Denmark; b University of Umeå, Sweden; c University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J.M. Hansen), [email protected] (A. Wallman), [email protected] (D. Teshome), sofi[email protected] (S.K. Sporrong).
Introduction: Some of the basic needs for college students are feelings of esteem, belonging, and safety. These can be met through e.g. extracurricular activities. It has also been found that the sense of belonging in class cultivates the students’ desire to participate in class and trying harder. Motivation is essential to learning and understanding education content. Motivated students have been shown to be more persistent when it comes to academic work. There are no extensive studies conducted on university students studying pharmacy in this regards. Objectives: The overall aim of this study was to explore motivation and extracurricular activities of pharmacy students and describe how these influence academic achievement at three Pharmacy Schools with different properties. Methods: A comparison was performed between Pharma School at Copenhagen University and two other universities, one which has a similar community, but uses distance learning, and one which has a diverse community, culture and infrastructure, i.e. the universities of Umeå, Sweden and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Exploratory interviews were conducted with two students from each university, known to be engaged in extracurricular activities. Hereafter, a content analysis was performed on the interviews. Results: Students’ sense of belonging was impacted by size and structure of the program, e.g. distance learning. Social relations to other students, in different classes, helped confine focus on studying and were important for collegial sparring practice. Participating in extracurricular activities required a carefully planned everyday life, and students hence planned time for reading and teaching. Motivation seemed to be driven by personal development, possible job prospects, finding out what a job could consist of and how it relates to the education. Students in all three countries wished for more time and better relations with educators. However, direct improvement on overall academic achievements was not reported. The interviewed students were very happy with studying pharmacy. Discussion and conclusions: The students who participated in this study were found to benefit from engaging in extracurricular activities by increasing their network, gaining energy from social activity and develop job relevant skills. They had expectations about becoming a wholerounded person with social and communicative skills as well as academic. Although the universities had different culture and infrastructure, there were no big differences in attitudes towards the benefits of participating in
extracurricular activities between the three universities. ROUTINE COLLECTION OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE DATA IN A HOSPITAL e IS THE DATA REPRESENTATIVE? Oinasmaa Salla MSc a,1, Heiskanen Jari b, c,1, Hartikainen €inen Mikko MD b, Miettinen Heikki b, Martikainen Juha b, a, Hippela Janne a, Roine Risto a, b, d, Tolppanen Anna-Maija a. a University of Eastern Finland, Finland; b Kuopio University Hospital, Finland; c School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; d Helsinki University Hospital, Finland E-mail addresses: [email protected].fi (O. Salla), jari.heiskanen@uef.fi (H. Jari), juha. hartikainen@kuh.fi (H. Juha), mikko.hippelainen@kuh.fi (H. Mikko), heikki.miettinen@kuh.fi (M. Heikki), janne.martikainen@uef.fi (M. Janne), risto.roine@uef.fi (R. Risto), anna-maija.tolppanen@uef.fi (T. Anna-Maija).
Introduction: The importance of patient-reported outcomes, such as health-related quality of life (HRQoL), has been emphasised when assessing the effectiveness of healthcare. In Kuopio University Hospital, the routine collection of HRQoL data with the 15D instrument as part of the admission process was initiated with a six-month pilot phase in June 2012. The questionnaire should have been administered to all coronary artery disease patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). If these data are used for example, assessing the effectiveness of treatment or for benchmarking purposes, their representativeness of the actual patient material is crucial. Objectives: To assess whether the obtained baseline and 12-month followup HRQoL data are representative of all treated patients. Methods: The cohort included all elective CABG (N¼404) and PCI (N¼738) patients, treated during 6/2012-12/2014. The characteristics of the patients from whom the baseline (n¼260 and 290 for CABG and PCI, respectively) or baseline and follow-up questionnaires were obtained (n¼203 and 189 for CABG and PCI, respectively) were compared to those with no HRQoL data (n¼144 and 448 for CABG and PCI, respectively) with logistic regression. Results: In comparison to the pilot phase (2012), the proportion of obtained responses was lower in 2014 for CABG patients (OR, 95% CI¼ 0.47, 0.27-0.83), whereas for PCI patients the baseline questionnaires were obtained more often in 2013 (OR; 95% CI 2.22, 1.50-3.28) than in 2012, but this returned to same level with the pilot phase in 2014. The baseline questionnaires were less likely obtained from older CABG patients (0.25, 0.28-0.91) and those with more severe disease, as indicated by CCS/NYHA class 4 (0.20, 0.05-0.79) or higher number of hospital days one year before the operation. Of these factors, longer hospital stay was associated with a smaller probability of answering the follow-up questionnaire. Among PCI patients, women (0.69, 0.46-1.02), smokers (0.70, 0.49-1.02), those with more severe disease as indicated by CCS/NYHA class 4 (0.21, 0.08-0.52) or more hospital days one year before the operation were underrepresented among those with follow-up data. Similar associations were observed with failure to obtain a baseline response. Discussion and conclusions: When individual HRQoL data are used for effectiveness evaluation, it is important to ensure they represents the entire patient population. Consequently, adequate resources need to be allocated for data collection. The higher proportion of obtained questionnaires among CABG patients may reflect differences in the admission and data collection process. PATIENTS' EXPECTATIONS ON RECEIVING MEDICINES INFORMATION FROM COMMUNITY PHARMACIES Anahit Sevikyan PhD a, Irina Kazaryan PhD a, Anahit Amirkhanyan PhD a, Margarit Melikyan b. a Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia; b FARMEX LLC, Armenia E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. Sevikyan), [email protected] (I. Kazaryan), [email protected] (A. Amirkhanyan), margaritmelikyan@yahoo. com (M. Melikyan).
Introduction: Receiving medicines information is important for patients
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Equal contribution.