Sato Eiji, Anraku Makoto, Okamura Nobuyuki, Hata Toshiyuki, Yoshitomi Hironori, Taguchi Katsuhide, Murakami Nobuyuki
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuyama University, Fukuyama, Japan.
Yakugaku Zasshi. 2011;131(7):1117-25. doi: 10.1248/yakushi.131.1117.
In recent years, self-medication is promoted to control the health care cost of aged people in Japan. On the other hand, there are many pharmacists who are perplexed in diversification of work with promotion of self-medication because of shortage of information, including the knowledge of an over-the-counter drug, health food, etc. It is therefore needed to design an efficient education program for pharmacists, especially in aging society such as Fukuyama. In this study, we investigated the needs for self-medication of local residents and community pharmacists in order to clarify the high-priority education themes for promotion of self-medication in Fukuyama. The pharmacist's needs were extracted by the KJ method and prioritized by the two-dimensional developed leaf method, and the local resident's needs were extracted by questionnaire survey from 420 general populations who live in Fukuyama. As a result, we found that the community pharmacists were especially in need of acquisition of the knowledge about "health food" and "food", and the local residents were especially in need of consultation with community pharmacists about "medicine", "side effect of medicine", "health food" and "food". Moreover, we also found that sixty percent of local residents did not have knowledge about interaction of "medicine" and "health food" while the half of them was taking in "health food". From the above result, knowledge improvement of "health food", "food" and "interaction of medicine and health food" in addition to "medicine" and "side effect of medicine" is the high-priority education themes for local residents and community pharmacists to promote self-medication in Fukuyama.
近年来，日本为控制老年人的医疗保健费用而提倡自我药疗。另一方面，由于包括非处方药、保健食品等信息短缺，许多药剂师因自我药疗的推广导致工作多样化而感到困惑。因此，有必要为药剂师设计一个高效的教育项目，尤其是在像福山这样的老龄化社会。在本研究中，我们调查了当地居民和社区药剂师对自我药疗的需求，以明确福山市推广自我药疗的高优先级教育主题。通过KJ法提取药剂师的需求，并通过二维展开叶法进行优先级排序，通过问卷调查从居住在福山的420名普通人群中提取当地居民的需求。结果发现，社区药剂师尤其需要获取关于“保健食品”和“食品”的知识，而当地居民尤其需要就“药品”、“药品副作用”、“保健食品”和“食品”向社区药剂师咨询。此外，我们还发现，60%的当地居民在服用“保健食品”的同时，对“药品”和“保健食品”的相互作用没有了解。基于上述结果，除了“药品”和“药品副作用”之外，提高“保健食品”、“食品”以及“药品与保健食品的相互作用”方面的知识，是福山市当地居民和社区药剂师推广自我药疗的高优先级教育主题。
