An exploration of the attitudes and perceptions of the UK public towards self-care for minor ailments

Scott, Ashley; Jones, Colin

doi:10.12968/bjon.2020.29.1.44

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“…The current research tends to support other reports where OTC medicines have been described as effective and safe [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]14]. It is also important to note, however, that safety was not rated particularly high.…”

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Consumer Impressions of the Safety and Effectiveness of OTC Medicines

2023

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The public generally believes OTC medicines to be helpful for treating minor ailments. From a survey point of view, that position often originates from feedback obtained when these medicines are considered as one broad category. The objective of the study was to assess the properties of 15 categories of agents across three dimensions—effectiveness, safety, and familiarity. Data were gathered via an online non-random survey in one Canadian province, where residents were asked to consider 15 OTC medicine categories in terms of those dimensions. Five hundred and seventy-five completed surveys were obtained out of 3000 sent. On the 10-point effectiveness scale, values ranged from 5.1 (Athlete’s foot cream) to 7.3 (headache medicine). For safety, the medicines were closely grouped (6.0 to 7.4). Cough syrups for children were perceived as less safe than those for adults. There was a trend in that, as product familiarity grew, so did impressions of safety and effectiveness. The results support other reports where OTC medicines are described as safe and effective, although safety ratings were not particularly high. Responders considered these medicines to generally be higher in safety than effectiveness.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

“…Generally, consumers perceive OTC medicines to be effective and safe for treating minor ailments [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. An Australian report found that the most important factors to consumers when purchasing OTCs were effectiveness and safety, where personal experience largely predicates those outcomes [9].…”

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Consumer Impressions of the Safety and Effectiveness of OTC Medicines

2023

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“…The most frequently mentioned factor for having a negative attitude towards relocating care is that citizens have concerns about the quality of care when care is being relocated, due to less expertise of the HCP or insufficient quality of the instrument or self-test, which will be involved in the new location [ 28 , 32 – 34 , 36 , 47 , 51 , 54 , 55 , 59 , 60 , 63 , 65 , 67 , 69 , 70 , 73 , 77 , 82 , 85 – 87 , 90 , 94 ]. Regarding relocating care to eHealth or self-care a lack of trust in eHealth technology [ 33 , 34 , 36 , 47 ], or a particular self-care device, [ 54 , 55 , 59 , 60 , 63 , 65 , 67 ] was reported very often.…”

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Citizens’ perspectives on relocating care: a scoping review

Damen,

Van Tuyl,

Korevaar

et al. 2024

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background Healthcare systems around the world are facing large challenges. There are increasing demands and costs while at the same time a diminishing health workforce. Without reform, healthcare systems are unsustainable. Relocating care, for example, from hospitals to sites closer to patients’ homes, is expected to make a key contribution to keeping healthcare sustainable. Given the significant impact of this initiative on citizens, we conducted a scoping review to provide insight into the factors that influence citizens’ attitudes towards relocating care. Method A scoping review was conducted. The search was performed in the following databases: Pubmed, Embase, Cinahl, and Scopus. Articles had to include relocating healthcare and citizens’ perspectives on this topic and the articles had to be about a European country with a strong primary care system. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 70 articles remained. Results Factors positively influencing citizens’ attitudes towards relocating care included: convenience, familiarity, accessibility, patients having more control over their disease, and privacy. Factors influencing negative attitudes included: concerns about the quality of care, familiarity, the lack of physical examination, contact with others, convenience, and privacy. Furthermore, in general, most citizens preferred to relocate care in the studies we found, especially from the hospital to care provided at home. Conclusion Several factors influencing the attitude of citizens towards relocating care were found. These factors are very important when determining citizens’ preferences for the location of their healthcare. The majority of studies in this review reported that citizens are in favour of relocating care. In general citizens’ perspectives on relocating care are very often missing in articles. It was significant that very few studies on relocation from the hospital to the general practitioner were identified.

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The Effect of Self-Care Training for Health Ambassadors on The Number of Doctor Appointment Due to The Treatment of Minor Ailments

Shakiba

Sulzbach

Marzbani

et al. 2021

Iran J Health Educ Health Promot

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Background and Objective:The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of self-care training for family health ambassadors on the number of doctor appointment for the treatment of minor ailments. Materials and Methods: In this interventional study were surveyed 400 families. This study was performed in 2018-2019.The intervention group included families that had a health ambassador and the intervention was performed for health ambassadors. Data collection tool was a questionnaire designed by the Office of Education and Health Promotion of the Ministry of Health. Demographic information and the number of appointments to the doctor were also asked. According to the titles of the educational text and the family age groups, trainings were provided to health ambassadors once every 2 weeks for a year. Total of 24 training sessions were held by the health care providers of the selected health centers. The questionnaires were completed, one year after the intervention again. Results: Mean and standard deviation of test scores in the experimental group were upgraded before and after the intervention in the field of mothers and infants from 5 (± 2.9) to 22 (± 7.1), children from 5.7 (±1 4.1) to 19.6 (±6.6), adults and the elderly were from 2 (±1) to 9.4 (± 2.9) and adolescents from 2.1 (±1.80).Also, the number of appointments to the doctor due to minor illnesses decreased significantly in the intervention group during the year, so that from 888 appointments to the doctor by family members of trained health ambassadors before the intervention was reduced to 379 times after the intervention.(p<0.05). Conclusion: Continuous self-care training along with following up and training family health ambassadors play an important role in increasing public awareness and reducing the number of unnecessary appointments to the doctor.

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An exploration of the attitudes and perceptions of the UK public towards self-care for minor ailments

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Consumer Impressions of the Safety and Effectiveness of OTC Medicines

Consumer Impressions of the Safety and Effectiveness of OTC Medicines

Citizens’ perspectives on relocating care: a scoping review

The Effect of Self-Care Training for Health Ambassadors on The Number of Doctor Appointment Due to The Treatment of Minor Ailments

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