Knowledge, attitude and practice of caregivers on medication management at residential aged care facilities in Malaysia
An escalating proportion of the aged group is associated with a growth in the prevalence of ill health. With the complexity of age-related diseases, a good medication management system is important to prevent medication errors. This study was aimed to develop a questionnaire to assess the knowle...
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Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2020
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16270/1/8_ms0410_pdf_76454.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16270/ https://www.medicineandhealthukm.com/toc/15/2 |
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| Summary: | An escalating proportion of the aged group is associated with a growth in the prevalence of ill health. With the complexity of age-related diseases, a good
medication management system is important to prevent medication errors. This
study was aimed to develop a questionnaire to assess the knowledge, attitude and
practice (KAP) of caregivers on medication management at residential aged care
facilities (RACFs). A cross-sectional study was performed involving caregivers from
90 RACFs throughout Malaysia. The validated self-administered questionnaire
was developed based on the extensive literature review and expert`s opinions
containing 41-items divided into three domains. In this study, the response rate was
71% with 128 questionnaires returned. Median scores obtained for knowledge,
attitude and practice were 77.27, 70.83 and 68.66, respectively. Majority of the
caregivers (71.9%) deemed to know what medication management was. However,
nearly half of them (48.4%) did not experience any training. More than half of the
caregivers possessed good level of knowledge (69.5%, n = 89), around half (57.8%,
n= 74) had a good attitude and less than half had a good practice (46.9%, n= 60) of
medication management. Level of education, special qualification and experience
of medication management training were the factors that correlated with good
score outcome (p<0.05). Therefore, it is assumed that more support and training
can be provided to the caregivers in RACF on medication management. |
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