From: Pharmacy switch of antipsychotic medications: patient’s perspective
Introduction | |
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The questions refer to your visits in pharmacy over the last 12 months with a prescription for antipsychotic medications received from your doctor |
Questions and explanations to patients | Responses and its analyses |
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1. Were you offered by a pharmacist an antipsychotic medication named differently from that prescribed by your doctor? | Quantitative analysis of yes/no responses |
If yes, please, refer to the most recent or most remembered visit and answer the following questions. If no, please, do not answer the other questionsa | |
2. Did you receive any explanations from a pharmacist proposing the switch of the antipsychotic medication prescribed by your doctor? | Quantitative analysis of yes/no responses |
3. Did you accept this proposal?b | Quantitative analysis of yes/no responses |
4. What was your attitude to this situation? | Quantitative analysis of responses on the Likert-like scale |
Very negative | |
Negative | |
Neutral | |
Positive | |
Very positive | |
5. What was your emotional response to this situation? | Qualitative analysis of patient’s descriptions |
6. Did you inform your psychiatrist about this situation? | Quantitative analysis of responses |
No | |
Yes, during an unscheduled visit | |
Yes, during a scheduled visit | |
7. Did you notice any subjective changes in drug’s efficacy and/or tolerance after the switch?c | Quantitative analysis of yes/no responses |
If “yes”, qualitative analysis of patient’s reports | |
8. Did you change a dose or frequency of antipsychotic drug administration after the switch?c | Quantitative analysis of yes/no responses |
If “yes”, qualitative analysis of patient’s reports |