Publication: Effectiveness Of Pharmacist-Led Educational Interventions On Practices Of Oral Antibiotic Suspensions Reconstitutions, Dosage Measurement And Storage Among Parents In Rural Area, Kedah
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2025-03
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Lock, Bao Xu
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Antibiotic suspensions is commonly prescribed for paediatric patients for the treatment of bacterial infections. Previous studies have demonstrated the common problems associated with antibiotic use, reconstitutions, and storage among parents. Meanwhile some studies only focussed on the interventions to improve parent’s knowledge on antibiotic reconstitutions rather than exploring the problems of parent’s malpractice on antibiotic reconstitution and storage. This study was conducted in a rural area of kedah, malaysia. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of pharmacist’s counselling on the parents’ practices of antibiotic use, antibiotic suspensions reconstitution, storage, and dose measurement. The first phase of the study involved the development of a counselling checklist on antibiotic use, reconstitution, storage and dose measurement. Besides, an antibiotic reconstitution and storage handout was developed. The second phase of the study involved the assessment of the effectiveness of the pharmacist’s counselling guided by the checklist and handout developed in phase one study. The parent’s knowledge and technique on antibiotic use, antibiotic suspensions reconstitution, storage, and dose measurement were assessed at pre and post pharmacist counselling. The parents were required to demonstrate the antibiotic suspensions reconstitution and dose measurement technique during the counselling session using a demonstration kit.
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Patient education—Malaysia