Desire for information about drugs: a survey of the need for information in psychiatric in-patients

Abstract

The internal reliability of the EID-factor appears to be reproducible in the specific setting of psychiatric hospitals. It may be useful to help healthcare professionals develop pharmaceutical care towards psychiatric patients. Validation of the scale remains to be completed. Information need in psychiatric in-patients measured by the EID-score was comparable to the need measured in general hospitals during earlier research in England. Targeted information services seem to be desirable to enhance therapy adherence and quality of life in psychiatric patients.

Hospital pharmacists providing drug information to psychiatric inpatients: still a long way ahead

“…Using the cutoff value as indicated, we recruited an equal number of patients with a low and a high EID. We know that the desire for information in a psychiatric population is not dependent on the diagnosis but correlates negatively with the number of medicines and the duration of treatment 8. There are no data about possible associations between the psychiatric condition of the patient and the possible openness to the hospital pharmacist.…”

“…Given our own experience in researching desire for information in psychiatric patients,8 9 a qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews in a convenience sample of psychiatric patients was chosen as an appropriate method to investigate the opinion of these patients on the provision of drug information.…”

“…To date, research on this topic in population samples with mental illness is limited. A study of 279 psychiatric patients interviewed in a hospital setting demonstrated that there was a negative correlation between the intrinsic desire of information (IDI) and the number of medicines taken and between the IDI and the duration of admission 8. When further investigated, the extent of information desired (EID) was not led by social desirable behaviour, which implies that the opinion of psychiatric patients on information about medicines may be considered reliable 9…”

Information on antidepressants for psychiatric inpatients: the divide between patient needs and professional practice

“…In particular, patients with a mental health diagnosis have a need for information on medicines 9,10,11. A literature review on educational interventions on medicines in a population of psychiatric patients showed that medication information positively impacts patient knowledge on and adherence to psychotropic pharmacotherapy 5.…”

Constraints and perspectives of pharmacists counseling patients with depression at hospital discharge

“…Information desire was assessed by the six-item Extent of Information Desired questionnaire. A cut-off value of 19 or more was applied to identify patients with a high desire for information (range score is 6-30) [5,6]. Each hospital was assigned to one of the three study groups.…”