Hendaus Mohamed A, Saleh Manar, Darwish Shereen, Mostafa Omar, Eltayeb Ahmed, Al-Amri Mohammed, Siddiqui Faisal J, Alhammadi Ahmed
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Academic General Pediatrics, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar.
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Academic General Pediatrics, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2021 Aug;10(8):2969-2973. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1259_20. Epub 2021 Aug 27.
The purpose of this study is to identify parental perception of household medication storage.
A prospective cross-sectional study utilizing a questionnaire was carried out at Hamad Medical Corporation, the solely tertiary pediatric hospital in the State of Qatar at the time of the study. Qatar is a young developing country with limited data on the awareness of medication storage among adults with children at home and on the safety practices regarding medication storage.
Three hundred and five questionnaires were completed. The vast majority of parents were married, one-third of them were males, and more than three quarters were college graduates and younger than 40 years of age. Almost 80% of the parents had more than three children but less than seven. In addition, 23% of participants were health-care workers. Almost 90% of the participants stored medications in a place that is easy to reach. However, the same percentage stated that those medications were stored in a locked place and that children did not have access to them. Approximately 10% of caregivers store multiple medications in one bottle, and the same percentage of participants do not check the expiration date on the medication labels. In terms of the most common medications stored at home, antihypertensives were on top of the list. Our study has shown that parental education and being a health-care worker were each associated with the difficulty in reaching medications ( = 0.006 and = 0.011, respectively). Moreover, the percentage of participants who shared medications was significantly higher among those who were not working in the health-care section compared to those who were ( = 0.004). In addition, being a female parent and a college graduate was associated with the possibility of keeping excess or leftover medications at home ( = 0.025).
Parents residing in the State of Qatar have some deficiencies in knowledge about medication storage. Parent's attitudes and perceptions are deemed vital objectives for population's health intervention.
本研究旨在确定家长对家庭药品储存的认知情况。
在哈马德医疗公司开展了一项前瞻性横断面研究，该公司在研究期间是卡塔尔国唯一的三级儿科医院。卡塔尔是一个年轻的发展中国家，关于家中有孩子的成年人对药品储存的认知以及药品储存安全做法的数据有限。
共完成305份问卷。绝大多数家长已婚，其中三分之一为男性，超过四分之三是大学毕业生且年龄小于40岁。近80%的家长育有三个以上但少于七个孩子。此外，23%的参与者是医护人员。近90%的参与者将药品存放在易于取用的地方。然而，相同比例的人表示这些药品存放在上锁的地方，孩子无法获取。约10%的照料者将多种药品存放在一个瓶子里，相同比例的参与者不查看药品标签上的有效期。在家中储存的最常见药品方面，抗高血压药位居榜首。我们的研究表明，家长教育程度和身为医护人员均与获取药品困难相关（分别为P = 0.006和P = 0.011）。此外，与从事医护工作的参与者相比，非医护领域的参与者中分享药品的比例显著更高（P = 0.004）。此外，身为女性家长且是大学毕业生与在家中留存多余或剩余药品的可能性相关（P = 0.025）。
居住在卡塔尔国的家长在药品储存知识方面存在一些不足。家长的态度和认知被视为人群健康干预的重要目标。
