Ashwood Daniel, Farris Karen B, Campo Shelly, Aquilino Mary L, Losch Mary
Consultant in Elyria, Ohio. At the time of this study he was Graduate Research Assistant, Program in Pharmaceutical Socioeconomics, College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa. Iowa City, IA ( United States ).
Walgreen III Professor in Pharmacy Administration and Professor of Social & Administrative Pharmacy, Department of Clinical, Social & Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan . Ann Arbor, MI ( United States ).
Pharm Pract (Granada). 2011 Jan;9(1):44-7. doi: 10.4321/s1886-36552011000100007. Epub 2011 Mar 15.
Community pharmacies may place condoms in locked displays or behind glass, thereby reducing access and consequent use.
Quantify sales and theft of condoms when condoms were unlocked and removed from behind glass in grocery pharmacies.
Design. In this pilot study, condom displays were unlocked in selected pharmacies for three months. Participants. Eight grocery pharmacies in central Iowa agreed to participate. Intervention. Stores provided inventory at baseline, sales/theft thereafter in three monthly reports and sales for the same period one-year earlier. Outcome measures. Descriptive statistics quantified condom theft and sales. Number of pharmacies leaving condoms unlocked after the intervention was determined.
Theft varied by pharmacy and ranged from an average of 1.33 boxes (units) per month to 27.33 per month. All stores experienced some increase in sales during the intervention. Two locations decided to re-lock their displays, only one indicated theft as the reason.
After removing condoms from locked displays, more condoms were purchased and stolen from the study pharmacies. Sales outweighed theft in all pharmacies.
社区药房可能会将避孕套放置在带锁的展示架中或玻璃后面，从而减少获取量及随之而来的使用量。
量化杂货店药房中避孕套从玻璃后解锁并取出后的销售量和被盗量。
设计。在这项试点研究中，选定药房的避孕套展示架被解锁三个月。参与者。爱荷华州中部的八家杂货店药房同意参与。干预措施。商店在基线时提供库存，此后在三个月度报告中提供销售/被盗情况以及一年前同期的销售额。结果指标。描述性统计量化了避孕套的被盗量和销售量。确定干预后未锁避孕套的药房数量。
各药房的被盗情况各不相同，每月平均被盗量从1.33盒（单位）到27.33盒不等。在干预期间，所有商店的销售额都有一定程度的增长。有两个地点决定重新锁上他们的展示架，只有一个表示原因是被盗。
在将避孕套从带锁展示架中取出后，研究药房的避孕套购买量和被盗量都有所增加。所有药房的销售量都超过了被盗量。
