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PURPOSE: This study aimed to investigate the public's perception of reimbursement for the education and counseling services provided to advanced practice nurses in intensive care units.METHOD: This was a secondary data analysis study. The original data were collected utilizing an online panel. The sample comprised 615 individuals aged between 19 and 49 years nationwide. The study variables included the public's perception of reimbursement for education and counseling services, age, gender, education level, income, and health status. Variables such as past experience of being admitted to an intensive care unit by self, family, or relatives and the recognition of advanced practice nurses were also examined.RESULTS: The mean of the perception score was 3.15 on a 4-point scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree). Among the participants, 89.2% answered “somewhat agreed” or “strongly agreed” to the question about the education and counseling services being covered by the National Health Insurance. Moreover, education level, past experience of being admitted to an intensive care unit by self, family, or relatives, and recognition of advanced practice nurses were significantly associated with the perception score.CONCLUSION: Efforts should be made to publicize the need for the education and counseling services that are provided to advanced practice nurses in intensive care units.
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Humans , Counseling , Critical Care , Education , Intensive Care Units , Methods , National Health Programs , Statistics as TopicABSTRACT
Aims: The present study was undertaken to examine the effect of patient education and counseling by pharmacist on quality of life and medication adherence on patients living with HIV/AIDS in rural settings. Study Design: It is a single group (without control group) pre- post interventional pilot trial Place and Duration of Study: Convenient samples of 54 patients of either sex, with ART medications for a minimum of 3 months and between the age group of 18 – 65 were included in the study. It was conducted by visiting the patients directly at their homes in rural setup for the period of six months. Methodology: The recruited patients were educated and counseled individually by a trained pharmacist through previously prepared and validated Telugu version of patient information leaflet with pictograms and cartoons suitable for both illiterate and literate patients developed by pharmacist. Patient’s quality of life, level of knowledge and adherence to the medications were considered as outcome measures, After providing educational intervention and counseling, patients were followed after the minimum interval of 90 days and then the outcome parameters were evaluated. Paired‘t’ test was used to generate the results. Results: Our study results have show that there was an significant improvement of knowledge about disease and medications. We also observed a significant improvement in Quality of life. The total mean score of quality of life at baseline was 53.28 ± 16.85 and during the follow up Visit it was 64.75± 8.84 and there was significant difference between the pre counseling data and post counseling data. Patient medication adherence was maintained at the same level of 80.09 %, 81.01% before and after providing patient education and counseling respectively Conclusion: Patient education and counseling is an important aspect to improve quality of life of patients living with HIV/AIDS in a resource limited settings.