The Role of the Patient Information Leaflet in Patients’Medication Therapy: A Case Study within the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana

The Role of the Patient Information Leaflet in Patients’Medication Therapy: A Case Study within the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana

One of the tools used in providing comprehensible medication information to patients on their medication use for improved adherence and subsequent optimal therapeutic effect is the Patient Information (PI) leaflet. In Ghana, the patient information leaflet is available through various sources includ...

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Published in:TheScientificWorld Vol. 2020; no. 2020; pp. 1 - 5
Main Authors: Amengor, Cedric Dzidzor K., Aboagye, Rahel Adutwiwah, Yeboah, Genevieve Naana, Owusu, Frederick W. A., Entsie, Philomena
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2020
Hindawi
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Hindawi Limited
Subjects:
Case studies
Consumers
Decision making
Developing countries
Drug stores
Drug therapy
Drugs
Females
Health aspects
Information sources
LDCs
Males
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medicine
Medicine, Experimental
Patient compliance
Patient education
Patients
Pharmacy
Polls & surveys
Questionnaires
Sociodemographics
Ghana
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Summary:One of the tools used in providing comprehensible medication information to patients on their medication use for improved adherence and subsequent optimal therapeutic effect is the Patient Information (PI) leaflet. In Ghana, the patient information leaflet is available through various sources including health-care professionals (HCPs) and electronic forms. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 70% of patients, especially in the developing countries, who receive medications do not read the accompanying leaflet. This study assessed the role of the patient information leaflet in Patients’ medication therapy in the Kumasi metropolis of Ghana. A random cross-sectional survey was conducted in various hospitals and pharmacies within selected districts in the Kumasi metropolis. The survey revealed that 96.9% of the sampled respondents (n = 300) were provided with PI leaflets on their medicines while only 3.1% of them indicated otherwise. Among the proportion of respondents who were provided with PI leaflets, 66.7% of them read the information on the drug leaflets whilst the remaining 33.3% did not. Ultimately, 62.4% of those who read the PI leaflets were influenced to discontinue their medication. In conclusion, reading of the drug information leaflet was higher than that found in previous studies in Ghana. Reading the leaflet did not increase adherence but aroused anxiety and decreased adherence in some patients. A large number of the patients who were given the PI leaflets indicated that it did not provide them with the needed information.
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Academic Editor: Mugimane Manjanatha
ISSN:2356-6140
1537-744X
1537-744X
DOI:10.1155/2020/2489137