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Validation of a questionnaire for patient awareness and the need for a community-based outpatient antimicrobial stewardship program (O-asp): A pilot study
- Title
- Validation of a questionnaire for patient awareness and the need for a community-based outpatient antimicrobial stewardship program (O-asp): A pilot study
- Authors
- Park S.; Geum M.J.; Choi H.J.; Kim C.-J.; Kwack W.G.; Chung E.K.; Rhie S.J.
- Ewha Authors
- 최희정; 이정연; 김충종
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 최희정; 이정연; 김충종
- Issue Date
- 2021
- Journal Title
- Antibiotics
- ISSN
- 2079-6382
- Citation
- Antibiotics vol. 10, no. 4
- Keywords
- Antimicrobial stewardship program; Community pharmacy; Interprofessional team; Outpatient; Pharmacist
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- 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.
- DOI
- 10.3390/antibiotics10040441
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- 의과대학 > 의학과 > Journal papers
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