Public attitude and knowledge on a new health policy for pharmaceutical care in Korea

Objective: to assess college student's attitude and knowledge of the ‘separation of dispensing and prescribing’ policy in Korea. Design: a self-administered questionnaire survey of 700 college students. Main outcome measures: the attitude was assessed by the degree of interest in the policy, ag...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Health policy (Amsterdam) 2002-11, Vol.62 (2), p.195-209
Main Authors: Kang, Hye-Young, Park, Chong Yon, Joong Kim, Han
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Dispensing
Drug Prescriptions
Drugs
Health
Health administration
Health Policy
Humans
Knowledge
Korea
Medical service
Pharmaceutical industry
Pharmaceutical Services - organization & administration
Policy studies
Prescribing
Public health
Public knowledge
Public Opinion
Public policy
South Korea
Students - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Objective: to assess college student's attitude and knowledge of the ‘separation of dispensing and prescribing’ policy in Korea. Design: a self-administered questionnaire survey of 700 college students. Main outcome measures: the attitude was assessed by the degree of interest in the policy, agreement to the policy need, expectation for the policy effect, and perceptions of motivation for physician's strike. The knowledge level was measured using four questions describing the goal/motivation of the policy and eight describing its operational rules. Results: the level of interest (2.60 on a four-point scale), and agreement to the need (2.66) and the potential effect of the policy (2.29–2.91) were not very high. Concern for economic loss was perceived as the strongest motivation for physician's strike. While relatively well understood for the goals/motivations of the policy (mean score: 69.58 out of 100), the operational details of the policy were not well-informed (32.52). Interest and agreement with the policy need were the most significant factors affecting the knowledge level ( P
ISSN:0168-8510
1872-6054
DOI:10.1016/S0168-8510(02)00019-2