日本健康专业人员对健康支持药店作为营养教育和饮食相关健康促进咨询服务提供者的认知和需求的确定。

Determination of the Awareness about and Need for Health Support Pharmacies as the Provider of Consultation Service about Nutrition Education and Diet-Related Health Promotion by Health Professionals in Japan.

机构信息

Department of Food Function and Labeling, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8363, Japan.

出版信息

Nutrients. 2021 Dec 30;14(1):165. doi: 10.3390/nu14010165.

DOI:10.3390/nu14010165

PMID:35011040

原文链接:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8746723/

Abstract

Health support pharmacies (HSPs) have been established as a new category of pharmacies in Japan. In addition to prescriptions, HSPs provide several health services, including consultations on diet/nutrition, health foods, and nursing care. Therefore, not only individuals receiving medications but also community residents should have access to HSPs. However, it is unclear whether people are aware of HSPs. Thus, the purpose of this study was to assess the awareness about HSPs and determine the need for their services. To this end, we conducted an online cross-sectional questionnaire survey in 10,000 Japanese adults. Approximately 60.2% of the participants were aware of family pharmacies/pharmacists, and 21.8% of these participants had a family pharmacy/pharmacist. Meanwhile, 2.6% of the participants were aware of HSPs, while 9.2% of the participants had only heard of HSPs. Awareness of HSPs was higher among men and younger individuals than among women and older generations. In addition, only 7.2% of the participants were aware of the location of the HSP in their area of residence. At the time at which this survey was conducted, only 3.5% of the participants were using HSP services, and half of them did not perceive the merits of using these services. However, 44.4% of the participants wished to avail themselves of HSP services in the future, and this desire increased with age. Half of the participants wished to use services that were associated with drugs, and the need for other services, such as consultations on diet/nutrition or health foods, was low. In conclusion, there was low awareness about HSPs among the survey participants. However, from our findings, we gathered that if individuals are aware of HSPs, they will wish to use HSP services. To improve healthy life expectancy, it is important to increase awareness about HSPs and their number.

摘要

健康支持药店（HSPs）已在日本被确立为一种新型的药店类别。除了处方外，HSPs 还提供多项健康服务，包括饮食/营养、保健品和护理咨询。因此，不仅是正在服用药物的个人，社区居民也应该能够获得 HSPs 的服务。然而，目前尚不清楚人们是否了解 HSPs。因此，本研究旨在评估人们对 HSPs 的认知程度，并确定对其服务的需求。为此，我们在 10000 名日本成年人中进行了一项在线横断面问卷调查。大约 60.2%的参与者了解家庭药店/药剂师，其中 21.8%的参与者有家庭药店/药剂师。与此同时，2.6%的参与者了解 HSPs，而 9.2%的参与者仅听说过 HSPs。男性和年轻人比女性和老年人对 HSPs 的认知度更高。此外，只有 7.2%的参与者知道他们居住地区 HSP 的位置。在进行这项调查时，只有 3.5%的参与者正在使用 HSP 服务，其中一半人没有意识到使用这些服务的好处。然而，44.4%的参与者希望将来能够使用 HSP 服务，并且这种愿望随着年龄的增长而增加。一半的参与者希望使用与药物相关的服务，而对饮食/营养或保健品咨询等其他服务的需求较低。总之，调查参与者对 HSPs 的认知度较低。然而，从我们的调查结果中可以看出，如果人们了解 HSPs，他们将希望使用 HSP 服务。为了提高健康期望寿命，提高人们对 HSPs 的认识度并增加其数量非常重要。