Verification of the Effectiveness of the Health Support Pharmacy “Toyonaka Model,” an Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration Project Aiming to Promote Community Health through the Information from Community Pharmacies via Digital Signages / 社会薬学

Advances in information and communication technology (ICT)-especially, the spread of social networking services (SNSs)-have facilitated the dissemination of information and an explosion of health information lacking scientific evidence. Therefore, we believe that community pharmacies are the most suitable bases for distributing health information. In 2019, we launched the health support pharmacy “Toyonaka Model” in collaboration with the pharmaceutical association, municipal government, and university. Touch-panel digital signage (DS) was used for real-time distribution of ever-changing information and a rapid grasp of pharmacy users’ responses to various types of information. Between September 2019 and August 2021, one DS was installed in a pharmacy in each of Toyonaka City’s seven areas along with 14 questions on the usefulness of the delivered information. Respondents answered the 14 questions by a tablet or questionnaire; touch logs for DS were collected. When a pharmacy user consulted with a pharmacist about information delivered via DS, the contents were recorded and described by the pharmacist on a 4-point scale (e.g., “inquiry only,” “went through to execution”). From the 850 completed questionnaires and 61,565 touches, 88.7% of the respondents indicated that the information was useful, and 90.0% expressed interest in receiving more health information in the future. Thus, health information provided by DS may be useful to pharmacy users, as demonstrated by 113 cases in which the pharmacist was consulted regarding such information. In 62 of these cases, there were indications that the DS information might have influenced users’ behavior and intended actions.

The Effect of Trigger Point Acupuncture Treatment on Chronic Neck and Shoulder Pain-Questionnaire and Acupuncture Treatment for Unversity Students- / 全日本鍼灸学会雑誌

[Purpose] This study investigated shoulder stiffness in university students and compared three different treatment procedures for shoulder stiffness.<BR>[Method] The questionnaire (7 items) was distributed to 30 university students with a 3-month history of shoulder stiffness treated by three different treatments procedures. There were no abnormal findings on neuro logical examination.<BR>[Result] The questionnaire response rate was 64.6%. The overall prevalence of shoulder stiffness was 61.9%, most patients had asthenopia and headache along with shoulder stiffness. However, immediately after the tender point and sham treatment periods, there were no remarkable clinical effect on shoulder stiffness, whereas after trigger point treatment, there were remarkable clinical effects on shoulder stiffness, as evaluated by the visual analogue scale.<BR>[Conclusion] These results suggest that trigger point acupuncture treatment may be more effective for shoul- der stiffness in university students than other acupuncture treatments