Community pharmacies in many countries have expanded from their traditional roles and responsibilities of dispensing medicines to also providing additional health services. Our aim was to understand perceptions of the current roles and functions of community pharmacies held by the public and their attitudes towards pharmacy utilisation for selected pharmaceutical practices in an era of expanding scopes of pharmaceutical practices in Korea. A 31‐item self‐completed web‐based questionnaire was administered to adults residing in Korea in June 2018. The participants were those registered as the survey agent's panel. A stratified sampling by gender, age, and place of residence was conducted to represent the entire population in Korea. A total of 1,000 web‐based questionnaires were returned out of the 9,339 that were sent out, yielding a 10.71% response rate. We measured perceptions of the current roles and functions of community pharmacies held by the public and their attitudes towards pharmacy utilisation using a 5‐point Likert scale. Pharmaceutical practices in Korea are still limited to medicine‐centred services. The public felt that treating illnesses and maintaining health are less important functions than safe medication use is. We also observed a consistent tendency towards disinterest in chronic care management by pharmacists. The survey confirmed that pharmacists have sufficient knowledge but that their responsiveness, communication, and collaboration skills are poor. In communication domain, we found that the higher the age group was, the lower the rate of responding that the space was comfortable and time was sufficient. This finding suggests that public awareness of the roles and functions of pharmacies could be improved through differentiate pharmaceutical practices according to the subjects, specifically their ages.

Objectives：This study was conducted in order to investigate the influence of sexual trauma on the psychopathology and quality of life of children and adolescents in Korea.Methods：Twenty-seven children and adolescents and their caretakers who visited the Kangwon Sunflower Center participated in a cross-sectional study. Participants completed the Korean version of Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and SchizophreniaPresent and Lifetime Version, Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), and Child Health Questionnaire-Parent Form-50 (CHQ-PF-50). Their scores were compared with those of a age and sex-matched control group of 27 healthy children and adolescents.Results：Victims of sexual violence showed higher t score in Withdrawn, Social problems, Delinquent behavior, Externalizing problems, and Total problems in CBCL, compared with control group. In CHQ-PF-50, there were lower scores on Bodily pain/ discomfort, Behavior, Mental health, Time impact in parents, and Family activities subscales in victims of sexual violence. While Behavior and Family activities subscale showed negative correlations with Delinquent behavior, Externalizing problems, and Total problems in CBCL. Mental health subscale showed negative correlations with Social problems, Delinquent behavior, Externalizing problems, and Total problems. In addition, Time impact on parent subscale showed a negative association with Delinquent behavior in CBCL.Conclusion：The current study provided evidence suggesting that victims of sexual violence had a higher level of psychopathology and lower level of quality of life.KEY WORDS：Sexual ViolenceㆍPsychopathologyㆍQuality of LifeㆍChildㆍAdolescent.

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